Overview
The AMI assesses factors relevant to vocational and professional success. It is based on the premise that performance motivation results from the way broad components of personality are directed towards performance. Its inclusion of a range of dimensions that are relevant to success at work but which are not conventionally regarded as being part of performance motivation, make the AMI well-suited for vocational selection, development, and career counseling.
Suitable for
Graduate to Board Level
Language Versions
Czech, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Norwegian, Slovak and Swedish.
Product Description
The AMI differentiates between seventeen dimensions (achievement orientations):
| Dimensions | Description |
| Compensatory effort | Willingness to expend extra effort to avoid failure. |
| Competitiveness | Drive to win and be better and faster than others. |
| Confidence in Success | Belief in capacity to achieve even difficult goals stemming from a belief in own knowledge, skills and abilities. |
| Dominance | Tendency to exercise power over others, to take initiative and to control over activities. |
| Eagerness to Learn | Thirst for knowledge and striving to learn new things, even in the absence of external reward. |
| Engagement | Capacity to maintain a high level of activity, usually work related, for long periods with little rest. |
| Fearlessness | Degree of absence of a fear of failing at difficult tasks. |
| Flexibility | Willingness to accept changes and enjoyment of challenging new tasks. |
| Flow | Capacity to maintain long periods of concentration without being distracted; likelihood of becoming lost to the outside world and absorbed in a task. |
| Goal Setting | Tendency to set goals and make long term plans for achieving these. |
| Independence | Preference for making own decisions and working at own pace and tendency to take responsibility for their own actions. |
| Internality | Attribution of own success to own actions and efforts rather than to situational variables or luck. |
| Persistence | Tenacity and energy given to task completion. |
| Preference for Difficult Tasks | Tendency to seek out challenging rather than easy tasks and desire to seek greater challenges once earlier ones have been met. |
| Pride in Productivity | Enjoyment and satisfaction derived from achievement, from doing their best and from improving on performance. |
| Self-control | Capacity to delay gratification and to organise themself and their work. |
| Status Orientation | The desire to attain high status in their personal life and to progress professionally. |
Each scale has ten items. The items are, for the most part, couched in a work context. Dimension specific scores are derived, as well as an overall score.
Qualification level required:
Test User Occupational: Personality, or equivalent. Please see our Test User Qualifications page for guidance
Online tests on HTS
Most of our online tests are available through the HTS platform – click here for an overview. To access tests on HTS, you can choose between two options:
- Test with Hogrefe Administration Service (fixed price: cost of test + £40 admin fee + VAT) whereby Hogrefe manage the test administration process (set up link, download reports)
- Self-administration (with tiered prices) – whereby you have your own HTS account and manage the test administration process, allowing you access to discounted pricing based on the quantity of reports purchased.
To get set up with an HTS account, contact us by email or you can purchase the tests directly on our website. We will then set up your account.
Account set up procedure
Once we have received your order, we set up the online HTS account for you, add your test licenses and send you your login details by email. This may take up to one working day.
Test administration process
Once you have received your account login details, you will be able to set up your questionnaires and send them via email to your test takers. Once they complete their test, the report is automatically formulated on the portal, and ready to be downloaded as a pdf.
With your login details, you will receive a user manual for the HTS platform, as well as tutorials explaining how to use the system. Your Hogrefe customer support team is also available to assist you with the process and with any queries you might have.
Reliability
Reliability (Cronbach's alpha) for the total score is a = .96 and ranges from a = .66 to a = .83 for single scales. Retest reliability is rtt = .94 for the total score and ranges from rtt = .71 to rtt = .89 for individual scales.
Norms
Norms are available from a total sample of N = 2,178 (N = 335 US students; N = 410 US working adults; N = 1,267 German students; and N = 166 German working adults). Additional norms for the German original are available.
Duration
Untimed (approx 30-35 minutes)
Release Note
2002
