Assessed relationship between pay-for-performance perceptions and pay satisfaction among 104 hospital employees. Results indicated positive relationship between pay-for-performance perceptions and pay-raise satisfaction, pay-level satisfaction, and overall pay satisfaction even after effects of salary level, salary increases, performance ratings,…

Nonwage characteristics of jobs play a role in employment decisions. Workers often trade wages for job security, status, and other job attributes. (JOW)

Explored differences in sex-role socialization, personality orientation, and work attitudes and values of two groups of women clerical workers (N=91) who made their initial career choices in different historical time frames (the 1950s and 1970s). Results suggest that women clerical workers with differing sex-role socialization experiences may have…

Discusses factors that are necessary to produce significant change in an organization, including allowing a longer period of time than is expected; making change the primary objective of the chief manager; and accepting the fact that there will be confusion and anxiety among the employees. (LRW)

Investigated factors related to career salience of Nigerian dual-career women (n=142). Findings showed that neither family size not level of education related to women's career salience. Husbands' level of education did relate to women's career salience. Positive self-image and higher family income were identified as advantages, whereas…

A survey of 302 employees of hospital nursing services measured career commitment, professionalism, job satisfaction, and intention to remain. Results underscore a need to be concerned with how different measures of career stage mask or reveal important relationships of interest. (JOW)

Describes a method that can be used by family therapists to assist people in identifying and examining the ways in which family-of-origin dynamics affect their lives at work. Describes rationale for this work, cites relevant literature, and discusses professional and ethical issues involved in conducting family-of-origin workshops in the work…

Explored within empirical study context complexity of organizational commitment construct and respondent-generated behavioral manifestations of job attitude among plant workers (N=156). Found each commitment dimension related differently to work outcomes and that none of the dimensions was able to predict absenteeism or tardiness. (Author/CM)

Industrial workers who perceive work as their central life interest (CLI) also describe themselves as having a higher level of decisiveness, initiative, and supervisory ability than workers with other CLI orientations. This is one result found in this study which investigates the relationship between personality and CLI. (Author/HMV)

Research about office computerization and its relationship to age, gender, and level in the organization is relatively new, despite increased use of computers in the offices and the belief that employee perception of the technology may be crucial to achieving technological effectiveness. A study was conducted to identify factors of a construct…

This bibliography provides an up-to-date compilation of literature covering all aspects of the employee attitude survey process. It is intended for both researcher and practitioner. A wide variety of sources are represented with a focus on the past 10-12 years of attitude survey research. The 473 citations compiled are categorized under 7 separate…

Job restructuring and worker participation in decision making is humanizing technology in the land of Volvo and Saab and cutting down employee alienation and absenteeism. (Author)

Considerable research has examined the correlates of job involvement and its conceptual independence from the notions of satisfaction and motivation, with an indication of considerable overlap beween the three concepts as well as the possibility that job involvement may be more aligned with motivation than with satisfaction. A job attitude survey…

Benchmark data essential to further study and action were obtained in 1963 from personnel records and interviews with representative samples of aides and nurses. Some findings were: (1) State and county mental hospitals employed approximately 96,000 psychiatric aides with eight states acccounting for one-half, (2) Although there were wide…

Survey data of employee attitudes from a large sample of U. S. Navy civilian employees is examined for links with employee turnover. Factor analysis is used to reduce the data to a smaller set of underlying variables. Regression analysis is then used to explore the relationship between turnover and attitudinal factors, organization size, and time.…