Cultural Socialization as a Source of Intrinsic Work Motivation
研究了文化社会化如何通过工作中心性、工作目标和社会规范等构念预测内在动机，发现这些构念对美、日、匈三国政府主管的态度和绩效有解释力。
Intrinsic motivation depends not only on innate qualities common to all people, but also on socialization into aspects of national culture that support proactive work behavior. Constructs from comparative research from the Meaning of Working project—work centrality, work goals, and societal norms—predict attitudes and aspects of performance that reflect intrinsic motivation beyond what is predicted by constructs based on traditional cognitive evaluation and job characteristics approaches to intrinsic motivation. Results predicting attitude criteria are quite similar for supervisor-level employees of local governments in the United States, Japan, and Hungary. Results predicting evaluated performance are stronger in the first two countries.