Leonina-Emilia Suciu
Ph.D. Student, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Maria Mortan
Associate Professor, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Ioan Lazar
Professor, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Vincentiu Veres
Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
.Debutant Civil Servants Probation Period
The Influence on the Expectancy Element of
Vroom’s Motivational Theory
Many researchers and specialists have dedicated their studies to
motivation. From all of its forms, work motivation has got a special
attention. This is especially due to the importance of managers knowing
what motivates their employees in order to achieve performance. The
most studies on work motivation have usually taken place in the
industrial environment. Vroom’s Expectancy Theory, on which is based
our research, was just one of these many studies. According to Victor
Vroom, the motivational force depends on three elements: the
expectancy that effort will lead to performance, the instrumentality that
performance will lead to rewards and the value of the rewards.
This study is part of a broader research on work motivation in the
Romanian Local Public Administration, based on Vroom’s motivational
model. Based on questionnaires applied to public servants working in a
City Hall, county residence from Romania and through the statistical
analysis that have been pursued, the research tries to make a diagnose
of the Romanian local public institutions (City Halls in particular)
regarding the work motivation of their civil servants. Precisely our
research tries to identify how the law regulations related to the career
and other aspects of the civil servants work, and the way there are
applied, influence the three elements of Vroom’s model and by default
work motivation.
This study refers only on one of the Vroom’s model elements, the
expectancy and only to one aspect that influences it, namely the
probation period for the debutant civil servants. One has chosen to
present here the importance of the probation period for the debutant
civil servants in infleuncing their expectancy level and as a result also
work motivation, since the probation period is critical in preparing
them for their future job and career within the Local Public
Administration.
The findings show that the probation period for the debutant civil
servants, otherwise meant for the increase of the civil servants