Within the frame of general motivation theory the parallelism between work motives and basic biological and social motives is outlined. The principle that entities, which are desirable by definition, which have the character of values, can not be measured by means of absolute rating but only by rating of their relative importance or priority is stressed. This is why The Work Motives Scale consists of 15 items that are ranked by the subjects according to their importance to them. Results collected with the second version of the scale on 120 candidates for jobs are shown: relative importance of motives forthe group, their correlations with age, education level, lie-tendencies andbasic personality traits. According to the construction goals each scale item refers to one separate motive, so the grouping of items is very weak. Multivariate methods tend to reveal two dimensions: intrinsic versus extrinsicmotives and motives of independence versus motives of co-operation and group dependence.
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