A Study on the Enlistment Motivation of Voluntary Service Soldiers by Maslow’s Demand Theory

• Main Authors: Chih-jen Wu, 吳志仁
• Other Authors: Wen-huei Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17344628572297821742

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理學院碩士班 === 97 === The ROC Ministry of National Defense has undergone a personnel recruitment project with the goal:“To attract talented people, to train them, and to elevate their quality, therefore, to enhance national defense capability.” This study follows the big reform of our military policy, in order to discuss the motivation of people who want to be enlisted in the voluntary military system. In this study, I researched on the theories of Maslow’s Need-hierarchy theory and its effect on youth’s enlistment motivation. My research objects are students who are targets of the recruitment project, with age between 18 to 25 years old, and are currently studying in senior high schools or universities. Date was collected through questionnaires, and various statistical methods, such as Chi-square goodness of fit test, T test, and ANOVA, were used in the analysis. The findings are as follows: 1.Personal attributes, such as“sex”,“education level”, and“family experience in military service”, are significantly correlated to questionee’s willingness to military service. 2.Across the Maslow’s Need-hierarchy, men and women are significantly different in their perception of needs. 3.Difference in family income, parents occupation, and parents education level, reflects significant difference on questionee’s Physiological needs, Safety needs, Belongingness needs; Social needs, Self-esteem needs, Self-actualization needs. 4.The degree of needs in Maslow’s Need-hierarchy has no influence to people’s decision on voluntary military service.