ANALYSIS OF SALARY MAN MOTIVATION AND THE WILL TO WORK (YARUKI)

The Inner Graphic Formula Method (IGF) which was originally conceived by Professor Ishiketa and further developed by him and his associates was used to investigate the motivation of new company employees. Japan ese companies traditionally recruit new employees from senior classes and notify successful candidates of their intention to employ them aro und the first of January. Since graduation is in March, April first is , then, the first day of work for almost all of these graduates in the ir new companies. The investigation period for this study covers the e leven months from January until the middle of November, and therefore includes the three month period after notification but prior to actual work, from January first until March thirty-first, and the first eigh t month of actual work, from April first to the middle of November. Th e subjects fell, naturally, into two groups; a ''Blue Collar'' group a nd a ''White Collar'' group. This paper deals with the motivation of t hese newly employed workers in general and, specifically, with the dif ference in motivational tendencies between ''Blue Collar'' and ''White Collar'' workers. As expected analysis showed that clear motivational differences appeared. Motivation in the white collar workers tended t o raise after an initial downturn, while a general downward trend was detected for the blue collar workers. White collar worker's attitudes toward themselves and toward their work seemed to change for the bette r as a result of having the chance to become introspective while plott ing the graph and writing the anecdotal responses needed to complete t he investigative sheet for this study.