Consistency in Motivational Patterns of Undergraduate and Graduate Business Students
The expressed motives of 33 undergraduate business students were compared with those of 18 graduate students who averaged 5.2 years of post-degree work experience. The forced-choice inventory used differentiates a total of twelve motive areas related to three dimensions: the physical, social, and ideological. Only two of the twelve pairs of means differed at the 5% level of significance, indicating that immediate post-degree work experience does not significantly influence the expressed work motives of business students.