Motivation, Satisfaction, and Morale in Army Careers: A Review of Theory and Measurement

Motowidlo, Stephan J.; Dowell, Benjamin E.; Hopp, Michael A.; Borman, Walter C.; Johnson, Paul D.

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“…It may be that attitudes toward career are the direct result of attitudes toward work satisfaction as opposed to type of training received. This view is supported by the previously cited research and by a comprehensive review of the industrial literature conducted by Motowidlo et al (1976) that indicated turnover to be consistently and unequivocally related to job satisfaction.…”

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“…The instrument was designed to describe job satisfaction in terms of environmental determinants previously shown to correlate with satisfaction in industrial and military settings (Borman & Bleda, 1978;Motowidlo, Dowell, Hopp, Borman, . ;ohnson & Dunnette, 1976;Woelfel & Savell, 1978).…”

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“…Although some studies have reported significant correlations between job satisfaction and performance, Motowidlo, Dowell, Hopp, Borman, Johnson, and Dunnette (1976) have reported that a review of twenty industrial studies indicated a median correlation of .l between job satisfaction and measures of performance and suggested this had little or no theoretical or practical value. It is generally agreed that the relationship between job satisfaction and performance is a complex one and is influenced by other factors, many of which are outside the workplace, and are not consistently dealt with in previous research.…”

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1983

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1983

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“…Notwithstanding its wide use and apparent importance, the morale concept has been variously defined. Motowidlo and his associates (Motowidlo et al, 1976), following an extensive review of related literature, finally admitted that "apparently any mental state which bears on a soldier's performance reflects his morale, anything at all in his environment can affect his morale, and any aspect of his performance indicates quality of his morale" (p. 49). This conclusion may go too far in emphasizing diversity, however, for even those authors saw some common, if not universal, themes in the morale literature.…”

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Morale and its Components: A Cross‐National Comparison¹

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Manning

1987

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Two U.S. Army armored cavalry squadrons (N= 660), one in Europe (USAREUR), stationed on the East German border, and one in the continental U.S. (CONUS), were administered an English version of a questionnaire widely used in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to assess morale, cohesion and soldier perception of unit readiness for combat. Analysis of inter‐item correlations, including factor analyses, revealed a generally similar structure of morale in the U.S. units and a comparable IDF sample stationed along the Lebanon border (N= 1270). All three data sets were organized around a group factor, a leadership factor, and two individual factors, one personal and one professional. National differences were apparent with regard to the relationship between morale and perceived contribution to national security, confidence in weapons, and confidence in senior commanders. In several other respects the USAREUR unit resembled the IDF sample far more than it resembled its sister unit in the U.S. As a whole the data are consistent with the view that morale has relatively similar determinants across armies, but that both national characteristics and situational characteristics (e.g., proximity to a potential foe and/ or battlefield) play a role in the relative importance of these determinants.

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“…Motowidlo et al (1976) reviewed the literature and concluded that most definitions of morale make reference to the concepts of satisfaction, motivation, and group membership. Rousseau (1985) compared individual job satisfaction and morale and differentiated between them, arguing that although both constructs have an affective component, only morale implies the existence of group cohesion and identification.…”

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2002

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This article reviews evidence for considering job satisfaction at the group level of analysis. Group-level job satisfaction is functionally independent of individual-level job satisfaction. This construct is labeled group task satisfaction and is defined as the group's shared attitude toward its task and the associated work environment. The authors propose that group task satisfaction develops out of within-group homogeneity in individual job satisfaction, which in turn is a product of the shared work conditions, social influence processes, attractionselection-attrition effects, and emotional contagion effects associated with work groups. They predict that through group interaction, the within-group homogeneity in job satisfaction will come to be perceived as a characteristic of the group. Once identified as a group characteristic, group task satisfaction will be subject to processes such as polarization and prototyping, with the result that group task satisfaction should function independently of the mean level of job satisfaction within the group. The authors predict that group task satisfaction will be related to the mean level of individual job satisfaction within the group, the quality of the group's processes, and the performance of the group, thus serving as an important indicator of team viability. This article represents a theoretical investigation of job satisfaction as a group-level construct. The job satisfaction construct has been thoroughly researched at the individual level. In contrast, only a small number of studies have investigated job satisfaction at the group level and organizational level, and in these studies, grouplevel and organizational-level job satisfaction have been

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Motivation, Satisfaction, and Morale in Army Careers: A Review of Theory and Measurement

Cited by 16 publications

References 76 publications

An Assessment of Job Satisfaction of Combat Arms Personnel during REALTRAIN Training

An Assessment of Job Satisfaction of Combat Arms Personnel during REALTRAIN Training

Morale and its Components: A Cross‐National Comparison¹

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Motivation, Satisfaction, and Morale in Army Careers: A Review of Theory and Measurement

Cited by 16 publications

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An Assessment of Job Satisfaction of Combat Arms Personnel during REALTRAIN Training

An Assessment of Job Satisfaction of Combat Arms Personnel during REALTRAIN Training

Morale and its Components: A Cross‐National Comparison1

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