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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. General Government Div. – 1988
The General Accounting Office (GAO) surveyed current Senior Executive Service (SES) (highly placed government civil service) employees to obtain their views regarding their federal employment, including career plans, characteristics, and opinions. The results of the survey were obtained from 348 usable responses from a sample of 430 SES members…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adults, Career Change, Employee Attitudes
Young, Leanne E.; And Others – 1980
The rapid growth of multinational corporations has necessitated theoretical and practical concerns for operating and managing organizations in varying cultural environments. The Navy Public Works Centers (PWCs) provide engineering, maintenance, rehabilitation construction, transportation and housing to U.S. Navy customers around the world.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Frataccia, Enrico V.; Hennington, Iris – 1982
The growing incidence of teacher burnout suggests that many teachers have difficulty in satisfying their needs and in deriving satisfaction from teaching. This study examined the needs that teachers appear to have difficulty in satisfying. The study is based on Herzberg's Hygiene-Motivation Theory. This theory, related to Maslow's Hierarchy of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Need Gratification, Principals
Bess, James L. – 1981
Recent theories of professional work satisfaction are reviewed and applied to the college or university professor. Additionally, the professional satisfactions available to the academic person are compared with those of professionals in other occupations. The following theories of job satisfaction are examined: job facets theory, expectancy…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction, Need Gratification
Motowidlo, Stephan J.; And Others – 1976
This report reviews and relates to each other the major concepts and theories that differentiate and define the constructs of motivation, satisfaction, and morale. It also describes and summarizes the potentialities of instruments and methods for measuring these concepts, with the focus on those theories and instruments most likely to be usefully…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Theories, Concept Formation, Job Satisfaction
Dunn, Dennis J.; And Others – 1973
The project for which the document is the final report began with concern over rapid turnover among vocational evaluators in rehabilitation facilities. The job turnover problem was analyzed according to the Minnesota theory of work adjustment. Resulting data suggest that vocational evaluators who change jobs do so because of dissatisfaction with…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Training, Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
Clay, Rex J.
A 10-member panel of judges selected two North Carolina community colleges with a high degree of democratic governance and two community colleges with a low degree of democratic governance. All full-time instructors at these four institutions were mailed a research instrument based on the semantic differential technique, and designed to test six…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Decision Making, Governance, Individual Needs
Smith, Patricia Cain; And Others – 1969
A strategy for studying attitudes is developed by analyzing the nature of satisfaction, and, the requirements for its scientifically adequate measurement. A comprehensive set of requirements for sound measurement, rather than just one or two elements, is emphasized. For the academicians, this book serves as an impetus to further research on the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis
Miller, John P.; And Others – 1982
Discussions by 56 educators from a Canadian school district on their job satisfactions and dissatisfactions, aspirations, and life transitions in tape recorded interviews provided the primary data for this study of adult development among teachers and administrators. Secondary data were obtained from a questionnaire survey of an additional 383…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adult Development, Adults
Clay, Rex J. – 1977
A study was conducted to expand the body of research that tests the validity of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory in a work context where it often serves as a guide for the supervisor's relationships with his subordinates. Data was gathered by questionnaire which tested for a hierarchy of needs among instructors at four community colleges…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Employer Employee Relationship
Dawson, Rob – 1979
Staff burnout is a major hazard in outdoor wilderness education programs. Most susceptible are younger, first-time, idealistic, highly educated, overcommitted individuals who find difficulty in separating work from their private lives. Symptoms of burnout include decreasing concern, commitment, and enthusiasm; minimizing physical involvement with…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Burnout, Coping
Peer reviewedOleckno, William A.; Blacconiere, Michael J. – Journal of Environmental Health, 1987
Reports on an assessment of a sample of environmental health practitioners in Illinois which dealt with overall job satisfaction and the characteristics that contribute to job satisfaction/dissatisfaction. Results indicated that 36 percent of the respondents were satisfied with their jobs, with 64 percent somewhat dissatisfied. (TW)
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Environmental Standards
Peer reviewedCardinell, Charles F. – Action in Teacher Education, 1980
Stress and burnout are normal occurences that are common and predictable in all professions, including teaching. Strategies should be devised and implemented to reduce at least the intensity of the phenomena so that job satisfaction can increase while commitment to work remains high. (JD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fatigue (Biology)
Knoop, Robert – 1987
Job dissatisfaction may manifest itself in frustration for the teacher and defense mechanisms for the employer. Previous research suggests that unfulfilled needs, goals, and value expectations, as well as the lack of achievement of outcomes, account for job dissatisfaction. Other variables include demography, disillusionment with life, lack of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
Spaeth, Joe L.; Handler, Lynn P. – 1979
Job satisfaction for college graduates is examined in this report that focuses on subjective determinants. It is contended that many objective characteristics, such as education and earnings, have little impact on job satisfaction. Data are taken from the National Opinion Research Center longitudinal survey of college graduates from the class of…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Graduates, Females, Graduate Surveys
