This study examined the effects of family and career path characteristics on objective and subjective career success among 916 employed mothers. Among family variables, age at first childbirth was positively related and career priority favoring the husband was negatively related to both income and subjective career success; number of children was…

This study examines the impact of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation on work and family outcomes and explores the influence of core self-evaluations (CSE) among these relationships. CSE is comprised of self-esteem, neuroticism, locus of control, and general self-efficacy. CSE was found to be negatively related to work interfering…

Much of the responsibility for managing careers is shifting from employers to adaptive and proactive employees. A career management intervention based on action regulation theory trained 205 white collar employees to engage actively in their own career building by increasing their self-knowledge, career goal commitment, and career plan quality. As…

Responses of a local sample of production workers to a job satisfaction questionnaire are compared with those of an earlier national sample. Differences between the two groups suggest that employees' life and work situations are at least as influential in changing questionnaire responses as the wording of the questions is. (Author/BP)

Examined organization tenure as a moderator of the job satisfaction-job performance relationship with technical employees (N=116) in a medium-sized industrial firm. Results provided support for a moderating influence of organization tenure on the relationship between job performance and overall satisfaction, satisfaction with work, and…

In examining the amount of gilding behavior a sample of female subjects attribute to different occupational statuses and to occupational statuses associated with specific ethnic minorities, results indicate that gilding approximates the general prestige rankings of the occupations when the status incumbent is perceived as similar to the subject.…

Data from 483 workers in 172 occupations were examined for correlations of 11 congruence indices to each other and to 2 job satisfaction measures. None of the 22 correlations between indices and measures was significant. The congruence-satisfaction relationship varied according to Holland personality type. (SK)

A study of 160 hospital employees with partners and/or children showed that work-family conflict was significantly related to global and composite job satisfaction. Behavior-based conflict was significantly related to job satisfaction; strain-based and time-based conflicts were not. (Contains 30 references.) (SK)

This study investigated the influence of two role stressors--role ambiguity and role conflict--on previously established relationships between mentoring activities--vocational support, psychosocial support, and role modeling--and prominent job attitudes. Full and partial mediation models were tested with a sample of 355 proteges. Results showed…

This study examined the relationships among employees' emotional intelligence, their manager's emotional intelligence, employees' job satisfaction, and performance for 187 food service employees from nine different locations of the same restaurant franchise. We predicted and found that employees' emotional intelligence was positively associated…

The job satisfaction-job performance relationship has attracted much attention throughout the history of industrial and organizational psychology. Many researchers and most lay people believe that a causal relationship exists between satisfaction and performance. In the current study, however, analyses using meta-analytic data suggested that the…

This paper examined the relationships between workplace coping strategies, occupational attributional style, and job satisfaction among a sample of 190 nurses employed with a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. As an occupational group, nurses experience high levels of chronic workplace stressors. Participants completed a questionnaire packet…

Gave subjects (N=832) one of four previews; some were permitted a choice of tasks. Consistent with social information processing approach (SIPA) predictions and contrary to "reality shock" predictions, task satisfaction was positively associated with preview favorability. Performance also varied by preview but turnover did not.…

Two Holland-style congruence indices computed for 16 occupational samples did not show significant correlations between job satisfaction and congruence for 12 samples and very small relationships for the other 4. Using congruence measures to predict job satisfaction may be more efficacious for workers entering new fields than for the more…

Over one year, 43 employees participating in a formal mentoring program were compared with 30 who never had mentors. Formal mentoring correlated with significantly greater job satisfaction and a small, not significant effect on organizational commitment. The two groups did not differ in terms of work-role stress or self-esteem. (SK)