목표지향성과 직무만족도: 동기부여의 매개역할 및상사지원의 조절역할

The purpose of this study is to examine a mediating role of motivation and a moderating role of supervisor support between employees’ goal orientation and job satisfaction. In this study, goal orientation is divided into performance orientation and mastery orientation to examine the effects of those two orientations on individual motivation and the moderating role of supervisor support in the relationships. Moreover, this study investigates the influence of individual motivation on his or her job satisfaction. Although employees’ individual attributes have a considerable influence on their attitudes and behaviors, there has been limited research. Especially, the majority of prior researches on employees’ motivation and job satisfaction has mainly focused on situational factors, while overlooking the individual attributes such as goal orientation. Even though many researchers have suggested the necessity of the integration of literatures about goal orientation and motivation, still little research has been examined comprehensively. Thus, drawing upon social cognitive theory, this study developed and tested an integrative research model including supervisor support as a situational factor by complementing and expanding the aspects which prior researchers have overlooked. The results indicated that both performance and mastery orientations were positively related to motivation. Although the moderating effect of supervisor support was significant in the relationship between performance orientation and motivation, there was no significant moderating effect in the relationship between mastery orientation and motivation. That is, performance orientation increased motivation when employees’ perception of supervisor support was higher. Also, motivation mediated the relationship between employees’ goal orientation and job satisfaction by showing its positive effect on job satisfaction. From the integrative perspective, the results of conditional indirect effect test indicated that the positive indirect effect of performance orientation through motivation on job satisfaction was significant when employees’ perception of supervisor support was higher. By considering both a mediating role of motivation and a moderating role of supervisor support between goal orientation and job satisfaction together, this study provides various theoretical and practical implications in order to better understand the perceptive mechanism and boundary condition for the effects of performance and mastery orientations.