Abstract / Summary:
Motivated employees are the cornerstones of all organizations, as work motivation is one crucial determinant of individual and organizational performance. This holds true in the private-, the public- and the non-profit sectors, as well as in international organizations (IOs).
By means of a questionnaire, this project will identify the combination of factors explaining why employees and volunteers of IOs show various levels of work motivation. In particular, it focuses on the impacts of values, considered here as higher order drives, on work motivation. In a nutshell the research question is: ''To what extend does the fit between personal values and the organizational values of an IO contribute to work motivation of its employees and volunteers?''
