"THE INTERPLAY OF WORK MOTIVATION AND PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF TAMIL NADU'S SCHOOL TEACHERS"

Abstract

The present study is to investigate the level of work motivation and personal effectiveness among Government and Private high school teachers in Tamil Nadu. Motivation is the complex of forces that inspire a person at work in an organization to intensify their desire and willingness to utilize their potential for the achievement of organizational objectives. The role of motivation is to develop and strengthen the desire in every member of the organization. And Personal Effectiveness is about having better self-awareness. One Simple, widely used model for self-awareness is the Johari Window, developed by Luft and Ingham (Luft, 1973). The present study is Descriptive in nature, and the ex-post facto Research design was adopted. The sample size is 150 School teachers from Government and private high school teachers, each 75 respectively, which comprises 110 males and 40 females. The sample for the present study was selected using simple random sampling. The results indicate that the Government and Private school teachers both have a high level of work motivation, for Personal Effectiveness shows the three areas: Self disclosure, Openness to feedback, and Perceptiveness, in which there is no significant difference in Self disclosure and Perceptiveness on Personal effectiveness, whereas Openness to feedback has a significant difference.