Determinants of Global Satisfaction: Organizational Differences.

Abstract

To identify the determinants of satisfaction for managers, a decremental stepwise multiple regression analysis was run on the exempt employees in five companies. There were 27 predictor variables, each reflecting satisfaction with some specific aspect of work. The variable to be predicted was global satisfaction. It was expected that the determinants would vary from company to company because the company situations are different and the determinants would reflect the particular situations. The resulting individual company regression models did show differences even though these five companies were members of the same corporation. The results of this study do not explain why there are differences or what effects manipulation of the determinants would have; these questions require further study. The method, however, does describe the factors accounting for global satisfaction for particular companies. The method is generalizable and can be used as a follow-up measure of change resulting from experimental manipulations of the determinants. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0724807

Entities

People

  • Mildred Nezzer
  • Patrick Pinto
  • Rene V. Dawis
  • William Weitzel

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Corporations
  • Data Science
  • Finance
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Regression Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Organizational Psychology.