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TABLE 4. Pearson ProductMoment Correlations Between Faculty Motivation for Research and Research
Productivity Measures
Journal articles published .159 .006 .127 .294 .048 .691 .064 .329 .270 .000
Articles published in past 24 months .197 .001 .283 .010 .044 .712 .020 .762 .239 .000
Tenured facultya
DISCUSSION
Constant 1.642 2.502 .013
% of time spent on research (X15) 3.955 0.218 3.166 .002 Effective Use of Tenure and
Motivation to contribute to field (X9) 0.073 0.174 2.563 .011
Years in academics (X17) 0.045 0.137 2.150 .033 Promotion
There are two aspects to the motiva-
Untenured facultyb tional strength of any reward. Those fac-
Constant 1.102 1.582 .119 tors are the value of the reward to the
Motivation to get chaired professorship (X5) 0.112 0.298 2.497 .015 individual and the probability that the
Years in academics (X17) 0.133 0.280 2.346 .022 reward will occur if the individual is
successful in achieving the goal to
Note. Dependent variable: Journal articles published in past 24 months (Y7); independent variables: which the reward is attached. Of the 13
Receiving or having tenure (X1), receiving promotion (X2), getting better salary raise (X3), getting
administrative assignment (X4), getting chaired professorship (X5), getting reduced teaching load motivations examined in this study, fac-
(X6), achieving peer recognition (X7), getting respect from students (X8), satisfying need to con- ulty ranked tenure and promotion,
tribute (X9), satisfying need for creativity (X10), having collaborations with others (X11), satisfying respectively, as their two most valued
need to stay current (X12), finding a better job (X13), discipline (X14), % of time spent on research
(X15) gender (X16), years of academic employment (X17). X1 to X13 are the importance or attrac- rewards. They also assigned the highest
tiveness of the reward (Ak) multiplied by the perceived probability (Ik) that being productive will probabilities to these rewards; of the 13
have a high impact on receiving that reward. Therefore, Xk = Ak Ik. In this survey, the maximum rewards, the faculty believed that
score is 25 (5 5) and the minimum is 1 (1 1).
a
F(3, 218) = 11.999, p < .000, R 2 = .141; number of observations = 222. bF(2, 61) = 5.034, p < research productivity would most likely
.009, R 2 = .140; number of observations = 64. lead to the rewards of tenure and pro-
motion. This made having or receiving
APPENDIX
Questionnaire
This brief questionnaire is designed to understand faculty motivation to conduct research. We greatly appreciate your taking time to
provide meaningful input. Your responses will be kept confidential. Your name will not be revealed in any of our reports or articles.
1. As a faculty member, please evaluate the importance of the following to you using a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being very important and
1 being not important at all.
2. Based on your experience and expectations of your colleges environment, please evaluate the impact of faculty research productivity
on achieving the following using a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being strongly agree and 1 being strongly disagree.
3. Based on your perception, please evaluate the impact of your research productivity on achieving the following using a scale of 1 to
5, with 5 being strongly agree and 1 being strongly disagree.
4. Demographic Profile:
Discipline: Accounting Finance MIS Marketing HRM OB
Business Law Decision Science/Production/Operations Mgmt/QBA Other
Please indicate the percentage of work time you spent on research in the past 12 months: %
Gender: Male Female
The year in which you started your first tenure-track faculty position:
Current academic rank: Assistant Prof. Associate Prof. Full Prof.
As applicable, please provide the year in which you were promoted from:
Assistant to Associate Professor rank:
Associate to Full Professor rank:
To what extent do you believe that your efforts will achieve or have achieved research output that is:
Not to a To a great
great extent extent
a. Acceptable to your colleges standard 1 2 3 4 5
b. Acceptable to your own satisfaction 1 2 3 4 5