Motivation of Maintenance Personnel to Work Particular Shifts.
Abstract
The research was to identifiy and evaluate the importance of selected factors of the employees and their environment which might motivate them to work nonday shift schedules in Air Material Area (AMA) Aircraft Maintenance functions of the Air Force Logistics Command. Four general factor areas were considered: selected individual characteristics, hygiene, motivational and off-the-job aspects. A mailed questionnaire was developed to measure the perceived importance of selected factors with respect to shift preference. Data was gathered from a sample of 204 employees randomly selected from the Aircraft Divisions of the five AMA's. The results of the research indicated three sub-factors that were significantly different across shift preference groups. These subfactors were age, grade classification and salary. The other 13 subfactors were not supported as being different across shift preference groups. The implications of these results reinforce the intuitive conclusion that shift preference is largely tempered by differential pay considerations. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0776780
Entities
People
- Gary D. Metzinger
- Robert D. Larue
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology