SELF-DETERMINATION AS A PREDICTOR OF SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

The purpose of the paper is to review the results of the research focused on the study of the personnel motivation through the context of the theory of self-determination of E. Deci and R. Ryan, which is currently one of the most conceptually developed and relevant motivational theories in psychology. While considering the works, the author analyzed the factors that can be considered as the key factors for effective professional activity: the subjective well-being, the ability to display initiative and self-fulfillment, the balance between the work and family self-efficacy. Meeting the basic needs for the competence, autonomy, and interrelations with other people considered as the key needs in the self-determination theory of E. Deci and R. Ryan is the important prerequisite for the optimum performance of an employee.

The author identified the individual types of professional motivation, and, based on the theory of causal orientations, considered the features of personnel management, which cause the development of a particular type of motivation. The development of internal autonomy and self-determination, which influence allows a person to recognize his or her own personal characteristics and to develop in harmony with them, gives the best results. It is caused by the fact, that the predominance of internal motivation gives the sense of initiative and the ability to influence the surrounding reality, to change the vector of own lives’ orientation. Professional motivation developed in accordance with the self-determination theory is the important predictor of job satisfaction, subjective well-being, job involvement and organization’s loyalty.

The paper gives the results of the studies whose aim was to develop the complex of recommendations for practical implementation of managerial measures aimed at the increasing of the employees’ self-determination as the main predictor of high performance of work activities.