Driving career motives A career has its own driving motives, based on which managers make active efforts to achieve specific goals. Such motives include:
Autonomy. A person is driven by the desire for independence, the ability to do everything his own way. Within the organization, it is given by a high position, status, authority, merit, which everyone is forced to reckon with.
Functional competence. A person strives to be the best specialist in his field and be able to solve the most complex problems. To do this, he focuses on professional growth, and considers job promotion through the prism of professionalism. Such people are generally indifferent to the material side of things, but they highly value external recognition from the administration and colleagues.
Security and stability. The activities of employees are driven by the desire to maintain and strengthen their position in the organization, therefore, as their main task, they consider obtaining a position that provides such guarantees.
Managerial competence. A person is driven by the desire for power, leadership, and success, which are associated with a high position, rank, title, status symbols, important and responsible work, high wages, privileges, recognition from management, and rapid advancement up the career ladder .
Entrepreneurial creativity. People are driven by the desire to create or organize something new, to engage in creativity. Therefore, for them, the main motive for a career is to gain the necessary power and freedom that the corresponding position provides.
The need for primacy. A person strives for a career in order to be the first always and everywhere, to “outdo” his colleagues.
Life style. A person sets himself the task of integrating the needs of the individual and family, for example, to get an interesting, fairly well-paid job that provides freedom of movement, managing one’s time, etc. If a person does not have a family, then the meaningfulness of the work, its fascination, and variety may come first.
Material well-being. People are driven by the desire to obtain a position associated with high wages or other remuneration factors.
Providing healthy conditions. The employee is driven by the desire to achieve a position that involves performing official duties in favorable conditions. For example, it is quite understandable when the head of the foundry shop of a plant strives to become deputy director of the enterprise and leave environmentally harmful production, and the head of a branch located above the Arctic Circle seeks a position that allows him to be closer to the south.