Abstract
The expressed motives of 33 undergraduate business students were compared with those of 18 graduate students who averaged 5.2 years of post-degree work experience. The forced-choice inventory used differentiates a total of twelve motive areas related to three dimensions: the physical, social, and ideological. Only two of the twelve pairs of means differed at the 5% level of significance, indicating that immediate post-degree work experience does not significantly influence the expressed work motives of business students.
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