Research on factors that influence social contagion of motivation in the workplace

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13783
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Meisei University
• Principal Investigator: Kikuiri Miyuki 明星大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10760598)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: モチベーション伝播 / 類似性 / 関係性要因 / 環境要因 / テレワーク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

An interview survey and questionnaire surveys were conducted for the purpose of clarifying the factors that influence social contagion of motivation in the workplace. As a result of a semi-structured interview survey of 10 employees of a corporate organization and classifying and aggregating the answers according to the meaning and content, the similarity of work-related values such as customer orientation, contribution to the organization, and self-growth was suggested to be involved in social contagion of motivation. In order to empirically examine this result, a questionnaire survey of 515 men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 who work in a corporate organization was conducted. In addition, in order to empirically examine the effect of the work environment (frequency of telework, etc.) on contagion of motivation, we conducted a questionnaire survey of about 500 men and women in their 20s and 60s who work in corporate organizations.

Free Research Field

産業・組織心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

面接調査という探索的な検討段階ではあるものの，職場におけるモチベーション伝播に関し，仕事の価値観の類似性が示唆された。これまで，モチベーションの高さにおける類似性(Radel, Fournier, De Bressy, D'Arripe-Longueville,2014)や同じ大学，同じ性別(Loersch, Aarts, Keith Payne & Jefferis,2008)であることが伝播に及ぼす影響は示されていたが，本研究では価値観という認識や考え方の類似性が伝播に影響することが示唆された。