Análisis de la asociación entre las prácticas de trabajo de alto rendimiento y la motivación de los trabajadores por cuenta ajena del sector privado español

Abstract

This research work analyzes the association between the level of motivation of private sector employees in Spain and a number of human resource management high-performance work practices, namely selection and training policies and economic and career incentives. To this end, five hypotheses are developed from a literature review and tested on the basis of a dataset drawn from the 2010 Quality of Life at Work Survey, provided by the Statistics Section of the Ministry of Work and Immigration. The analysis finds statistically significant associations between motivation and each of the other variables studied. Furthermore, it establishes the existence of positive associations between workers motivation and both selection and training practices, as well as between motivation and economic and career incentives. Future avenues of research are suggested in the conclusions section.