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The Effect of Work Values on the Relationship Between Job Characteristics And Job Satisfaction

Crain, Ronald D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297702057028

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1973, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology.
The present study was an attempt to support Hulin and Blood's (1968) model of job satisfaction. This model, which emphasizes the importance of individual differences in the determination of job satisfaction, is based on a construct running from "integration with middle-class norms" to "alienation from middle-class norms." The model predicts that for workers who are "integrated with middle-class norms" there should be a positive relationship between job level (complexity) and job satisfaction, and for workers who are "alienated from middle-class norms" there should be a negative relationship between job level and job satisfaction. The construct on which the model is based stands in obvious relation to Protestant Ethic work values. The hypothesis investigated was that Protestant Ethic work values moderate the relationships between job characteristics and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 224 employees working in a number of different jobs at a large midwestern hospital. The Job Attribute Index (JAI) was used to measure eight characteristics of the jobs, the Survey of Work Values (SWV) was used to measure six areas of Protestant Ethic work values, and job satisfaction was measured by the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) and the Job Satisfaction Index (JSI). Possible moderating effects of Protestant Ethic work values on the relationships between job characteristics and job satisfaction were examined by two techniques--subgroup analysis and moderated multiple regression. In the sub-group analyses each work value scale was examined separately, and in the moderated regression analyses the work value scales were combined into "intrinsic" work values and "extrinsic" work values. Very little support for the model was found. In the sub-group analyses, seven moderator effects were found for two of the work value scales, but only four of the moderator effects were in the direction predicted. In the moderated regression analyses, eleven moderator effects were found, with nine in the direction predicted. The two work value scales which produced moderator effects that were always in the direction predicted were Activity Preference and "intrinsic" work values.
Charles J. Cranny (Advisor)
Occupational Psychology

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  • Crain, R. D. (1973). The Effect of Work Values on the Relationship Between Job Characteristics And Job Satisfaction [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297702057028

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Crain, Ronald. The Effect of Work Values on the Relationship Between Job Characteristics And Job Satisfaction. 1973. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297702057028.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Crain, Ronald. "The Effect of Work Values on the Relationship Between Job Characteristics And Job Satisfaction." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1973. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297702057028

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