Effect of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on the Project Success : An Empirical Investigation from Uncontrolled On-Going Projects of Pakistani Telecom & IT Industry

Identifying how motivation is participating significant role in open source projects in uncontrolled settings. This research has a great contribution by enlightening the fact how motivation affect the project success with interrelation of other factors such as HR practices, organizational culture and employee participation. This study is focusing on the element, how these motivational factors manipulate the employee participation leading to project success, and how organizational culture controls the subsequent motivations through effective HR approaches. Depiction on research theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, a theoretical framework is developed that relates the factors that can lead to project success for uncontrolled environments for software development projects. The theoretical model is evaluated through the analysis of collected data from a longitudinal field study of software developing projects in Pakistan. The results reveal some key findings. Firstly, we found that intrinsic and extrinsic motivation both independently affects the project success. Being well paid encourages the employees to contribute positively towards their work. Similarly the intrinsic motivation enhances the motivational level emphasizing on internal interest that enhance the work ability. Surprisingly, there is no such fact is determined where intrinsic motivation is shrinkage due to extrinsic motivation. It is notified that extrinsic motivation enhances the intrinsic motivation at some level. Secondly both motivations affects on project success, if the organizational culture favors these factors in a positive way. Similarly developers motivation participation is also significantly affect the contribution level towards project success. Finally the HR practices have a vital role towards project success through the central role of implementing practices