Personality structure and achievement motivation of managers in NGOs and Business
Abstract
Background: Our contribution focuses on leadership effectiveness in
organisations from manager’s point of view. We concentrate on personality
traits and achievement motivation of successful managers. We try to verify if
there is a significant difference in personality structure, achievement and work
motivation between managers working in NGOs and managers working in business.
Furthermore, we specify characteristic personality traits and the structure of
achievement motivation for both groups – managers in business and managers in
NGOs.
Methods: we used test battery of two standardizes psychometric tests: NEO Big
Five Personality Inventory and Achievement Motivation Test (LMI). Explorative
sample: included 134 managers (middle level and top level) – 71 working in
business, 63 working in NGOs.
Outcomes: In both measured characteristics – personality traits and
achievement motivation – we found significant differences between the two
groups of managers (except for neuroticism scale and compensatory effort scale).
We can conclude that there are differences in personality structure and
achievement motivation between managers working in NGOs and managers working in
business.
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Keywords
personality, achievement motivation, work motivation, NGO, managementLiterature
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