Kognitivní přístup k porozumění (sub)kulturní podmíněnosti motivace pracovní činnosti

People differ from animals in using meta-representations of objects and aspects from their physical, as well as psychological environments. A meta-representation is a representation which connects beliefs and knowledge concerning an object and/or aspect of the ambiance to its mental representation. This idea was employed by others to explain the nature of cross-cultural differences in cognition. The present paper uses the same idea to analyse two concepts related to phenomena relevant to the theory of work motivation. The two concepts mentioned were used to explain factorial structure of a survey data. The data analysis led in both the cases to identification of subjects’ sub-groups which seem to use different meta-representation of the two concepts. As the survey was carried out in one national environment only, the results should be interpreted as demonstrating sub-cultural, rather then cross-cultural differences. Even so, the approach employed seems to be useful as it enables to construe to some depth otherwise opaque character of the work motivation contingency on (sub)cultural differences.