Análise estrutural de relações entre Motivação, Satisfação e Sugestões Criativas

The research analyzes the relationship between Satisfaction at work and Extrinsic Motivation (Identified and Introduced) as well as Intrinsic Motivation in Creative Suggestions, a dimension of Organizational Citizenship. For that, a sample of 140 workers from a universe of 270 of the operational sector of a cotton producing farm located in the countryside of the State of Piaui was used. The following scales were used to collect data: (i) the translated version of the Motivation at Work Scale (MAWS), by Gagne et al . (2010), presented by Grohmann et al ., (2013); (ii) the Job Satisfaction Scale (EST), reduced version, presented by Siqueira (2008); (iii) the Creative Suggestions dimension of the Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (Bastos et al ., 2014). The hypotheses were measured using a structural model, estimated by the Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-PM) method. Eight hypotheses were tested, with the following being accepted: H1: Satisfaction at work is positively related to Creative Suggestions; H4: The Dimensions of Motivation (Introduced H4a +), (Identified H4b +) and (Intrinsic H4c +) are positively related to Organizational Satisfaction. The results indicate that greater investment in Work satisfaction has a great effect (R2 51%, f2 0,64) on Creative Suggestions. The data suggest that, for Work Satisfaction, the influence of motivation is independent of the degree of self-determination (less self-regulation – Introjected and Identified, greater self-regulation – Intrinsic). Since the relationship between the dimensions of Motivation and Creative Suggestions was not significant, the mediation of Satisfaction was not identified. Keywords: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation, Creative Suggestions, Theory of Self-determination, satisfaction at work.