Job Context Satisfaction and Job Design: A Conceptual Perspective.

Abstract

Recent empirical inquiry focusing on the moderating effect of job context satisfaction on the job content yields worker response relationship has produced seemingly contradictory findings. Three types of explanations are explored: chance occurrence, sample distribution artifacts, and a series of alternative conceptual explanations. The first reconceptualization suggests that context satisfaction level influences higher level needs. A second reconceptualization involves absorption/distraction as the process which explains the role of context satisfaction. Six possible determinants of absorption/distraction level are discussed. Testable hypotheses for each idea developed are presented. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 05, 1982
Accession Number
ADA112167

Entities

People

  • John W. Newstrom
  • Jon L. Pierce
  • Randall B. Dunham

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Applied Psychology
  • Artifacts
  • Brain
  • Brain Stem
  • Hypotheses
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Motivation
  • New York
  • Observation
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Security
  • Supervision
  • United States
  • Wisconsin

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Theoretical Analysis.