Investigating the Relationship between Perception of Organizational Policies on Amotivation, Intrinsic Motivation and Its Impact on the Wordly Wellbeing of Employees

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Faculty of Human Sciences, Semnan University.

2 Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between  perception of organizational policies, amotivation, intrinsic motivation and its impact on the wordly wellbeing of employees. This study is an applied one in terms of purpose and a descriptive and surveyed research. The statistical sample in this study was 189 employees of Regional Water and Jihad Agriculture organization in Fars Province who were selected by convenience sampling. To analyze the data, partial least squares and Smart PLS-2 software were used. To assess the validity, convergent validity and to assess the reliability, Cronbach's alpha was used; which the coefficient for all research structures was more than 0.7. The results show that perception of organizational politics has a positive and significant effect on amotivation and wordly wellbeing of employees. Intrinsic motivation also has a positive and significant effect on the level of employees' wordly wellbeing. But the results of the research indicated a negative and significant relationship between perceptions of organizational policies and intrinsic motivation on the one hand, and on the other hand, amotivation and wordly wellbeing of employees. Also intrinsic motivation and amotivation does not mediate the relationship between the perception of organizational policies and wordly wellbeing.

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Organizational Behaviour Studies Quarterly
Volume 8, Issue 1 - Serial Number 29
(serial no.29)
May 2019
Pages 1-24

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