Designing and testing a model of some antecedents of job motivation in employees of Maroon Petroleum Industry Company

Motivating is one of the biggest concerns of current managers. So, the purpose of this study was designing and testing a model of some antecedents of job motivation (satisfaction with performance appraisal, satisfaction with pay, organizational justice and self-monitoring). The method of this study is a descriptive correlational design. The sample consisted of 225 employees of Maroon Petroleum Industry Company who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The participants completed satisfaction with performance appraisal (Meyer & Smith, 2000), satisfaction with pay (Smith et al., 1969), organizational justice (Colquitt, 2001), self-monitoring (Lennox & Wolfe, 1984), and job motivation (Robinson, 2004) questionnaires. Fitness of the proposed model was examined by structural equation modeling (SEM), using AMOS-22 and SPSS-22 software packages. Results indicated that the proposed model fit the data properly. Better fit and more significant results obtained by omitting 1 non-significant path. Findings also showed that all direct paths except satisfaction with pay to job motivation, were significant.