Document Type : Exploratory

Authors

• Sayyed Mahmoud Mirahmadi ¹
• Akbar Etebarian Khorasgani ²
• Alborz Gheitani ³

¹ Ph.D Student, Public Managment,Sub-disciplines: Organizational Behavior, Department of Management & Media, Isf.C, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

² Professor, Department of Management & Media, Isf.C, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Management & Media, Isf.C, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

Employee achievement motivation, as one of the key factors in improving individual and organizational performance, plays a fundamental role in achieving the goals of service organizations, especially medical universities. Given the complexity of the factors affecting achievement motivation and the interactions between them, the use of systemic and interpretive approaches seems essential to explain this phenomenon. The present study was conducted with the aim of designing a structural-interpretive model of employee achievement motivation at Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences. This research is applied in terms of purpose and qualitative-exploratory in nature. The statistical population of the study included academic experts and experienced managers at Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences who were selected in a snowball method. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews and the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The original themes included 1 overarching theme, 7 organizing themes, 15 basic themes, and 75 initial codes. Next, in order to explain the causal relationships and classify the identified factors, the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) method was used. The research findings showed that the motivation for employee advancement is affected by a set of individual, job, organizational, managerial, and environmental factors that are located at different levels of the interpretive structural model. The results of the model indicate that the underlying factors such as managerial support, organizational justice, and motivational culture have the greatest influence and affect other motivational factors. In contrast, variables such as job performance and desire for advancement are located at higher levels of the model and play a more consequential role.

Keywords

• Employee Achievement Motivation
• Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)
• Motivational Factors
• Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
• Human Resources

Main Subjects

• Modeling