Work motivation and procrastination in Ecuadorian teachers

Abstract

The present study has established to determine the relationship between work motivation and work procrastination in teachers of a university in La Loja in Ecuador. The type of study is of a basic nature with a non-experimental design of a correlational level and a quantitative approach. The population was made up of 43 university teachers. According to the results obtained, 55.8% of university professors have required to have a docentes universitarios  level of work motivation, university professors with a prevalence in the docentes universitarios  level are from the sales and production areas. On the other hand, 46.5% of university professors had a high level of procrastination, with university professors in the sales and production area being the ones who predominate at this level. The results of the hypothesis test aldocentes universitarios  us to conclude that there was a significant and inverse relationship, that is, the greater the work motivation, the less procrastination.