Politik Taktikler: İçsel Motivasyonun Bir Yansıması mı? Yöneticiler Perspektifinden Havacılık Sektöründe Bir Araştırma

Abstract

In this study, the effect of managers intrinsic motivation levels on political tactics and the relationship between these two concepts are examined and it is aimed to reveal the relationship between managers intrinsic motivation levels and the degree of applying to political tactics. Previous academic studies on intrinsic motivation and political tactics were generally conducted on employees and by using quantitative methods, and this study, n = 16 managers working in the aviation industry used semi-structured interview forms and in-depth analysis with qualitative method. This questions in the interview forms were inspired by quantitative methods. In this study, the level of intrinsic motivation of the managers was tried to be determined and a meaning matrix was tried to be formed in relation to the levels of applying politic tactics. At the end of the study, managers intrinsic motivation levels and frequency of using political tactics a significant relationship has been identified and analyzes and suggestions have been made in line with this findings. On the other hand, when the distrubition between the motivation levels of soft tactics was not examined, a logical and consistent distribution could not be seen.