The National Shipbuilding Research Program, Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No. 4: Study for the Improvement of Motivation in the Shipbuilding Industry
Abstract
One of the most significant motivating factors for workers is to believe that the company management is interested in the individual worker and his problems and is willing to attempt to do something about them. Although a limited understanding of workers' needs may be obtained from the research literature, the only way to really understand the workers' needs in a particular industry or particular company is to directly ask the individual local workers. Further, even the process of attempting to determine the worker's needs and problems is motivating, since it tends to help the worker to feel that the company cares enough to ask him. For the purpose of this study, motivation has been analyzed in terms of relationships to some of its various segments beginning with job satisfaction, the core factor around which all the other dimensions of the motivational process would evolve. The factors, in addition to job satisfaction include job commitment and morale, job importance, working conditions and benefits, workers' perceptions of co-workers, promotion, and supervisor-worker relationships. For the purpose of this summary, an attempt is made to utilize the direct data from this study interrelated with other research data to present some conclusions and recommendations which are aimed toward developing a more effective motivational system at the local shipyard level. These conclusions relate mainly to the quantitative data and are presented, not in terms of priority importance, but in sequential order.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA447863
Entities
People
- George A. Muench
Organizations
- San José State University