ABSTRACT
Task role motivation theory, like the professional theory, moves beyond bureaucracy to deal with a type of organization that has received relatively little attention until recently. This fact, coupled with the only very recent publication of a scoring guide for the MSCS – Form T (Miner, 1986), has meant that research on the task theory is far less than that involving the hierarchic theory. Nevertheless, the burgeoning interest in entrepreneurship has incorporated the task theory in its flow to a point where more now appears to be happening with regard to that theory than any other (see, for instance, Miner, Smith, and Bracker, 1992a). As a result there is more validity information available currently on task theory than on the professional theory, and given current trends, the prospect is that in a few years there will be a great deal more.
