The Relationship Between Employee Motivation and Evaluation Capacity in a Community-Based Education Organization

Background: Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has gained popularity among organizations due to the increased importance of accountability and organizational effectiveness. While ECB literature occasionally addressed notion motivation, it usually been in terms motivation do or use evaluation (Clinton, 2014; Taylor-Ritzler et al., 2013); this study sought ascertain whether general overall employee an organization is itself related capacity. By better understanding relationship, those who are involved administering, implementing, evaluating, researching can be equipped understand one ‘mediating conditions’ ‘antecedent (Cousins 2014) affecting organization’s ability evaluation, and, turn, more efficiently effectively craft their work. Purpose: The purpose was explore relationship between: (a) individual capacity; (b) evaluative thinking, (c) thinking. Setting: focused on Cooperative Extension System, a non-formal community-based education linked public land-grant universities throughout United States. Specifically, drew participants from two state systems, Virginia Maryland. Intervention: Not applicable. Research Design: This quantitative used descriptive correlational design (Creswell, 2003) uncover between variables: capacity, Data Collection Analysis: To investigate factors interest (motivation, thinking), three instruments were used: Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale (MWMS), Capacity Assessment Instrument (ECAI), Evaluative Thinking Inventory (ETI). STATA MP 13.1 software analyze collected data. Findings: Employees with lower doing work have employees higher which triggered by no external means but driven internal