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Andre, Rae – 1981
Research on the quality of employees' working life can be adapted to studies of the quality of working life for homemakers. However, a basic difference to be considered is the homemakers' values about their work, the goals, and the rewards. Open-ended interviews about homemaking with 30 metropolitan homemakers yielded a wide variety of responses,…
Descriptors: Family Life, Home Management, Homemakers, Job Satisfaction
Download full textDay, H. I. – 1971
A great deal of literature concerning work, play and job satisfaction is summarized and integrated. The author discusses a number of different conceptions of what work actually is and concludes that, according to all definitions, work is an instrumental activity with only extrinsic satisfactions. It is his contention, however, that work may have…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Employment
Peer reviewedHancock, John E. – Journal of College Student Development, 1988
Investigated potential mismatches between the rewards afforded by entry level, residence life positions and the vocational needs of individuals in student affairs trained to fill these positions. Participants included graduate students in student affairs (N=31) and student affairs supervisors (N=42). Results showed vocational needs differed from…
Descriptors: Career Change, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Strauss, George – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1975
Two articles, one by George Strauss and the second by Peter Henle, examine worker dissatisfaction in the United States. The first article explores the causes of worker dissatisfaction. The second article looks at the economic situation for workers today and its effect on job satisfaction. (EJT)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employee Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Job Satisfaction
Herrick, Neal Q. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1975
These two articles discuss ways to humanize the work environment and process for the workers. The first article describes government approaches to the humanization of work. The second article discussed types of job enrichment. (EJT)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Employee Attitudes, Enrichment Activities, Government Role
Velghe, James C.; Cockrell, Gary – Personnel Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Educational Programs, Hospitals, Job Enrichment
Freeman, Walter J. – 1978
A study examined the organizational factors contributing to the motivation of 4-H volunteer leaders. A modified form of Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory served as the research design of the study. A total of 149 4-H leaders were interviewed regarding thirteen job factors: recognition; personal growth; relationships with other 4-H leaders,…
Descriptors: Adults, Definitions, Employee Attitudes, Individual Needs
Rounds, James B., Jr.; Dawis, Rene V. – 1975
The report is concerned with the feasibility of matching people and jobs as proposed by the Theory of Work Adjustment; according to the third proposition of this theory, satisfaction is a function of the correspondence between the reinforcer system of the work environment and the individual's needs, with certain qualification. In the study, the…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Job Placement, Job Satisfaction, Need Gratification
Brown, Frank – 1972
This speech presents the results of a study of five psychological need classes, ordered from the most basic to the least basic -- security, social, esteem, autonomy, and self actualization. A questionnaire on need satisfaction was applied to a sample of public school administrators. Analysis revealed that there is no relation between…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Educational Research, Employment Level
Peer reviewedOrton, John W. – College Student Journal, 1981
Studied gratifications reported by instructors (N=60) of courses in psychology or family life. Gratifications included: significant participation and learning by students; professional and personal growth of the teachers themselves; and recognition, acceptance and praise from students. (Author)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Life Education, Higher Education, Individual Needs
Peer reviewedSilver, Paula F. – Educational Leadership, 1982
Presents research that suggests how school administrators can have a significant impact on teacher motivation, especially by rewarding teacher performance. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Administrator Role, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLightbody, Pauline; And Others – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1997
Administered an occupational choice questionnaire to 316 students to find out why some college courses are particularly attractive to ethnic-minority school-leavers. Results indicate that entering a "respected" profession and working with others who share similar beliefs were of greater importance to Asian subjects than to those of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, College Students, Expectation
Scholom, Allan; Perlman, Baron – 1977
The theoretical and practical importance of being responsive to the personal needs of the mental health worker is discussed. It is hypothesized that for mental health workers to function at optimal levels of effectiveness both within an agency and in delivering service to clients within an agency context their own needs for recognition,…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Delivery Systems, Health Personnel, Human Services
Weber, R. Jack; Hadd, Thomas A. – 1974
The Porter Need Satisfaction Questionnaire (PNSQ) is a 13-item questionnaire designed to measure a respondent's need satisfaction in five areas: Security, Social, Esteem, Autonomy, and Self-Actualization. In this study, the internal structure of the PNSQ is reexamined using a large multiorganizational sample of 2,049 middle and upper level…
Descriptors: Administration, Employer Employee Relationship, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics
Feiman-Nemser, Sharon; Floden, Robert E. – 1984
In the past, many social scientists were content to study teaching from a distance, borrowing concepts mainly from psychology and sociology to explain what teaching was like. Increasingly, students of teaching have come to value the insider's viewpoint and to rely on teachers as informants. This paper brings together research about the meaning of…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, Locus of Control, Need Gratification
