Motivation on Self Employment and Non Self Employment among Agricultural Graduates

Achievement motivation is one of the most important factors in occupations and there have been different researches in this regard. It has been recognized that achievement motivation is also another construct in the tendency of people to self employment. The major question in this study was to find out if there was a recognizable difference in job satisfaction and achievement motivation between self employed and non self employed people. Therefore the goal of this study was to compare achievement motivation and job satisfaction between self employed and non self employed graduates of agriculture. The sample of this research was 148 agriculture graduates, 78 of them were self employed and the rest were non self employed. For gathering data questionnaires of job satisfaction (Alfa=0.84) and achievement motivation (Hermens questionnaire with Alfa=0.73) was used and were sent by post to the samples. Results showed that achievement motivation and job satisfaction in self employed graduates were much more significant with compare to non self employed graduates (P<0.01).