It was hypothesized in a two-person situation that students would perform significantly better on intellectual tasks when paired with a liked other than when paired with a disliked other. In a laboratory experiment, 108 male undergraduates performed one of three types of intellectual tasks with an attitudinally similar or dissimilar partner or with a partner about whom the subject had no attitude information. Individuals paired with a similar partner felt affectively more positive than those paired with a dissimilar partner (p < .01). Individuals paired with a similar other performed significantly better on the tasks than those paired with a dissimilar partner (p < .01).
Supervisory -managerial personnel at two large manufacturing companies completed questionnaires to measure their intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. The subjects also completed questionnaires measuring their perceptions of six aspects of the communication climate within their respective organizations: supportiveness, openness and empathy, perceived accuracy of downward communication, upward communication satisfaction, perceived information reliability, and the overall openness of communication. Results indicate partial support for the overall hypothesis that individuals who are intrinsically motivated would perceive the communication climate as more open than would those who are extrinsically motivated.Motivation has long been a focus of study for those interested in analyzing behavior in organizational settings. Recently there has been a great deal of attention paid to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as one way of viewing the basis for preferential responses that define rewards for individuals in organizations. Motivation is intrinsic when the rewards for performing a task come from within the individual performing the task [6,10,12] and from the activity or task itself [1,3, 4, 5, 6,9,10, 11, 16] . Deci further clarifies the rewards gained from an intrinsically satisfying task when he states that &dquo;... the reward (of intrinsic t Data for this study were collected as part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation, W. Charles Redding, major professor. This author would like to thank
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