INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION AS A PREDICTOR OF JOB COMMITMENT AMONG SPORTS COUNCILS COACHES IN EDO STATE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as a predictor of job commitment among coaches of sports council in Edo State. Two research questions were raised in this study and two corresponding hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A correlation research design was adopted for this study. The population of this study comprised of coaches in Edo State Sports Council totalling 115. The sample size for this study is 100. The simple random sampling was used in selecting 100 respondents for this study. The instrument that was used for this study is a questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into three sections. Section A consisted of the respondents’ bio data, while section B and C related to items addressing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as well as job commitment among sports councils in Edo State. The instrument was validated by three experts. Their corrections, criticisms, clarifications, suggestions and scrutiny served as the final draft of the instrument. The instrument was administered to 20 coaches in University of Benin, Spots unit. The data collected were analysed using the Cronbach Alpha statistics and a coefficient values of 0.89 was obtained for intrinsic motivation, 0.74, extrinsic motivation 0.91 and 0.84 for job commitment. Data collected were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Findings revealed that there was a strong positive relationship existing between intrinsic motivation and job commitment of coaches of sports council in Edo State. It was therefore concluded that there is a significant relationship between intrinsic motivation and job commitment of coaches in sports council in Edo State. It was recommended that recognition, praises, rewards should be the watch word of the director of sports in the sports council.