The Relationship between Achievement Motivation and Job Efficiency of Agricultural Faculty Staff, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar Branch

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Masoud Ahmadinejad ¹ , Mahmoud Yaghoubidoost ²

1 - Department of Management, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran
2 - Sama Technical and Vocational Training College, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar Branch, Shoushtar, Iran

Received: 2015-12-24 Accepted : 2015-12-24 Published : 2013-09-01

Keywords:

References:

1) Alderfer, C. (1972). Existence, relatedness & growth. New York: Free Press.

2) Atkinson, J. W., & Feather, N. T. (Eds) (1966). A theory of achievement motivation. London :

Wiley.

3) Atkinson, J. W. (1964). An introduction to motivation. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand. 4) Cherrington, D., Nyal, D., & McMullin, B. (1989). Organizational behavior. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

5) Davidoff, L. L. (1987). Introduction to psychology (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill

6) Dweck, C. S., & Elliot, E. S. (1983). Achievement motivation. In . H. Mussen, & E. M. Hetherington (Eds.). Handbook of child psychology Vol. IV, Socialization, personality, and social development (pp. 643-691). New York: John Wiley & Sons. 7) Harackiewicz, J. M., Barron, K. E., Carter, S. M., Lehto, A. T., & Elliot, A. J. (1997). Predictors and consequences of achievement goals in the college classroom: Maintaining interest and making the grade. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1284-1295.

8) Maslow, A. (1943). A theory of human motivation, psychological re-view, 50, 370-396..

9) McClelland, D. C. (1961). The Achieving Society. Free Press, New York 10) Moorhead, G and Griffin, R. W. (2004). Organizational behavior : managing people and organizations. Edition 7th ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 11) Weldon, E., Jehn, K. A., & Pradhan, P. (1991). Processes that mediate the relationship between a group goal andimproved group performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 61: 555–569