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The Affect of Intrinsic Motivation and Personality on Teamwork Quality

Abstract
The importance of teamwork is highlighted nowadays in business management. To smooth the operation and strengthen the competitiveness of an organization, recruiting professionals from diversified fields to build cross-functional teams is extremely needed. Nevertheless, individuals may have diverse personality, hold different attitude to their work or are driven by different incentives, including extrinsic or intrinsic motivation. Based on the research of Hoegl & Gemuenden in 2001, this study take teamwork quality as the feature of teamwork performance and discuss how team member¡¦s personality and intrinsic motivation affect the result of teamwork quality.
This subjects were consisted of groups of students from 11 colleges who took the nationwide course ¡§The Discovery and Application of Creativity¡¨launched by the Consulting Division in Ministry of Education. We collected the questionnaire spread from these students after course and analyze the data with statistical methods of descriptive statistics, factor analysis, reliability analysis, ANOVA, t test, multiple regression. The major results of this study are as following:
1. Intrinsic motivation has significant positive influence on teamwork quality.
2. Personality partly influences teamwork quality.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0821106-140418
Date21 August 2006
CreatorsChen, Selena
ContributorsI-Heng Chen, Chin-Kang Jen, Jen-Jsung Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0821106-140418
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