A Study of the Job Attitudes of Blue-Collar Workers in the Civil Service Environment.
Abstract
The research is designed to measure the job attitudes of the wage-board employees within the Aircraft and Engine Division, Directorate of Maintenance, Sacramento Air Material Area, California. Development of this research is based on an attempt to test the Herzberg Two-Factor Theory of Motivation on the blue-collar worker in the civil service environment. Data are obtained from fifty-nine subjects, reduced and analyzed using the Herzberg methodology. Three basic conclusions are drawn from the results of this research: The wage-board employee is motivated by much the same hierarchy of factors as are employees in the industrial setting; there is some evidence that parameters in the civil service environment have intensified the pre-potency of working conditions and advancement as dissatisfiers, thus modifying the hierarchy of factors which result in job dissatisfaction for the wage-board employee; salary, as a monetary reward, is apparently of no significance in determining the job attitudes for the wage-board subjects of this research. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0732910
Entities
People
- Richard James Biggs
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology