International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The present study mainly focused on exploring achievement motivation in retired persons relation to previous job. The main objective of the study was to find out the difference in achievement motivation of male and female retired persons belonging to class A,B and C. In this study the researcher took 150 retired persons belonging to Class A,B and C as the sample. Concluding report of the study revealed that A class employees have higher achievement motivation than C class employees, When a person holds a particular designation and performs important duties related to his job profile then it helps in  enhancing as well as sustaining a particular level of achievement motivation but after the retirement some people start feeling worthless as the previous responsibilities and status which they used to enjoy comes to an end. All this results into lowering down the level of achievement motivation especially in case of retired persons. One of the main problems which people witness is that just after retirement the level achievement motivation lower downs. But again, this achievement motivation also differs among people as per the type of job from which they have retired.

Keywords: Achievement Motivation, Retired Persons, Class A, B and C Employees