Darrell Roach

COMPARISON OF UNWEIGHTED AND IMPORTANCE-WEIGHTED JOB SATISFACTION MEASURES FOR THREE SAMPLES OF FEMALE OFFICE WORKERS

Multiplicative importance-weighted and unweighted composites of job-satisfaction components were correlated with separate measures of over-all job attitudes and a termination criterion. In no case did the use of weighting for importance result in higher correlations with criteria than the use of raw-score unit weights.

Further Correlational Analyses of Five Versions of Two-Factor Theory of Job Satisfaction

5 versions of the two-factor theory of job satisfaction were tested for a sample of male radio/TV employees. No support was found for any of the versions of the theory. Two trends in the data, greater saliency of the intrinsic job-facets and greater predictability of over-all satisfaction, seemed to account largely for the results. These trends, previously noted by Hulin and Waters (1971) and Waters and Waters (1972), are more consistent with traditional approaches to job attitudes.

Managerial Role-Job Attitude Relationships: Comparison of Two Multiscale Measures of Satisfaction

Two operationally different approaches to measuring job satisfaction were used to discriminate among groups of higher-level line managers, lower-level line managers, and managerial-level technical/specialty personnel. Using the need deficiency measure of satisfaction, no linear combinations of subscores significantly discriminated among the groups. When the Job Descriptive Index was used to measure satisfaction, two discriminant functions separated lower-level line managers from the other two groups and the technical/specialty personnel from line managers. The importance of using multiple measures of satisfaction and of using multivariate analytic procedures was pointed out.

RELATION BETWEEN IMPORTANCE RATINGS AND TWO PARTS OF THE PORTER NEED SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE

Responses of 101 male managerial personnel, 130 nonsupervisory female clerical workers, and 104 female clerical employees of a university to a job questionnaire showed importance was related to “should be” responses for women and men, and to “is there” for women only. rs with importance ratings were larger for the former responses.