Risk Taking Behavior in Relation to Motivation and Job Satisfaction of Professionals

Abstract

Abstract- The purpose of the present study was to find out the relationship of motivation and job satisfaction with risk taking behavior. The other purpose was to see whether there were relationship of risk taking behavior with educational qualification, gender difference and income of the participants. A cross-sectional research method based on the survey approach was used for the investigation. A total of 200 samples was collected purposefully from six different occupational groups of people from different institutions in Dhaka City. A decision making measure constructed by Saha (2005) for individual decision making was used for the present study. The measures constructed consisted of risk taking items following a risky shift study of Kogan and Wallach (1964). This scale consists of 10 risk-taking items, representing need based and equality based situations and rated on a 11-point scale, ranging from zero to hundred, using the end points. On the other hand, two different measures such as Work Motivation Questionnaire, and Job Satisfaction Scale (Khaleque et al., 1995) were used to measure the respondents' work motivation and job satisfaction. The results indicated that there were significant relationship among risk taking behavior, work motivation, and job satisfaction of different professionals. Results also indicated that educational qualification, income and gender have significant impact on risk-taking behavior of the professionals.