747 ___________________________________________________________ DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birci.v3i2.886 Achievement Motivation as Antecedents of Quality Improvement of Organizational Human Resources Any Werdhiastutie 1 , Fendy Suhariadi 2 , Sri Gunani Partiwi 3 1 Post Graduate School Airlangga University Surabaya 2 Faculty of Psychology Airlangga University Surabaya 3 Faculty of Industrial Technology Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya any-w11@pasca.unair.ac.id I. Introduction The term of need for achievement was first popularized by Mc Clelland as a mental virus. This mental virus is associated with a thought related to how to do things well, faster, more efficient than what was done before (Weiner, 1985). Achievement motivation is often seen as an encouragement in achieving success in an organization. Achievement motivation is instilled in the individual in order to be able to master, manipulate and regulate the social and physical environment to achieve a high work quality improvement by competing through business beyond the results of previous work. The process of planting a mindset of achievement motivation to improve personal skills as high as possible in all activities. Achievement motivation is a motive to encourage individuals to achieve success to aim for success in competition with several measures of excellence, measures of excellence are used for the standards of achievement of self-achieved achievement before and are feasible to gain a competency. Abstract Achievement motivation is closely related to success and success or individual spirit in achieving a goal or success. David McClelland is famous for the theory of the need to achieve achievement that states that motivation varies, according to the strength of one's need for achievement. Motivation of work is a strong desire for humans to do a job related to the goals and needs to be achieved. Achievement motivation should also be designed according to the strategy model. Analysis of achievement motivation will lead to the form of evaluation on human resources and other potentials owned by the organization appropriately. Achievement motivation is intended to encourage the elements of improvement that will be applied and evaluated as the stage of improving the quality of human resources organization. Individual needs are met able to improve performance. Individuals in this study are motivated on the basis of achievement to be achieved based on the needs of each individual. Achievement motivation implanted in work system according to individual needs and desires is found able to produce greater individual performance improvement Keywords achievement motivation; quality of human research; motivation