ABSTRACT
The US or US-inspired psychological literature contains many studies measuring work goals. They commonly use sets of questions in paper-and-pencil questionnaires asking respondents “how important” to them is each of a list of aspects of the work situation, such as high earnings, job challenge, or good physical working conditions. The measurement of work goals has been carried out mostly in the context of surveys measuring aspects of morale and satisfaction as well. Work goals questions were first included in unsuccessful attempts to test theoretical models for predicting job satisfaction, and for showing management in survey feedback which aspects of the work situation were most important to subordinates. The work goals of students in the Eastern European countries are likely to be in the same state of flux as their countries’ political and economic situation. “Advancement” is clearly correlated with other ego-enhancing goals, and should therefore be preferred as a Masculinity indicator.
