This paper reports the results of a study of motivational antecedents of military noncommissioned officers (NCOs). The antecedent variables examined included individual characteristics, organizational factors, and task characteristics. The results, which were based upon estimates of multiple regression equations predicting NCOs' estimates of expectancy and instrumentality, indicated several individual characteristic, organizational, and total characteristic variables were potentially important predictors of NCOs' estimates of job-related expectancy and instrumentality.
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