efits of exempt employees neither motivate nor increase job satisfaction.The purpose of the Venkatesh and Speier (1999) study was to determine how a person’s state of mind during technology training affected motivation, intentions, and the usage of the new technology. The researchers also examined if these feelings about technology training disappear or if they are held over time. The effect of mood on employee motivation and intentions when employing a specific computer technology was tested at two different periods of time: immediately after the training and 6 weeks after the training, using a repeated-measures field study. The Venkatesh and Speier (1999) study included 316 participants of which 104 were women and 212 were men. All the participants had previous experience using computers, but none of them had prior knowledge about or experience with the database training that occurred during this specific study. There were a total of five teams, in which each team was comprised of a lecturer and technical consultant who conducted each training session. Each employee of the midsize accounting firm (3 separate branches) was randomly assigned to one of three mood treatments: positive, negative, or control. The control was used to minimize any effects due to a specific training team. Twenty- five minute video clips were used to induce positive and negative moods, while a twenty-five minute waiting period was used to create a neutral mood in a manner consistent with prior research. There were a total of 227 usable responses in the mood intervention. Participants then engaged in the training program developed by the organization’s technology management department. Extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and behavioral intention were all measured using validated scales containing a total of 9 items.The results suggested that there were only short term increases in intrinsic motivation and intention to use the tech...
