Work Motivation Scale

Career satisfaction and success depend upon finding work that meets your needs and fits your values.

The Work Motivation Scale helps individuals explore their needs and values—the key factors that motivate them to not only do their work, but to find fulfillment through it. As a revision of the Work Orientation and Values Survey (WOVS), this assessment has been reconfigured to include new research on motivation, has been revised and retested, and is more user-friendly.

In the assessment, test takers rate 32 brief statements about what motivates them. These statements are scored for eight work values and included in one of four motivation levels. Based on their results, test takers can focus their career exploration or re-evaluate their current job situations to make more informed decisions. A worksheet helps users plan for a more satisfying and rewarding career.

Robert Brady, Ed.D., is a consulting psychologist in private practice and professor emeritus of Counselor Education in the Graduate College of Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan, where he has taught and mentored students for more than 35 years.

As a clinician he has experience in relationships, career life, and health issues with individuals and families in independent practice, hospital, family clinic, school, and agency settings.

As an educator he has held faculty appointments at the University of Cincinnati, The University of Toledo, and Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has been active in training counselors, teachers, nurses, and physicians.

Brady's specialties include vocational testing, neuropsychological evaluation, rehabilitation consultation, developmental disabilities, and individual and group psychotherapy. He earned his doctorate in Counseling and Educational Psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1971.

For interview requests or questions about Brady, contact Selena Dehne at sdehne@jist.com or (651) 215-7548.