J. Kenneth White

Job Involvement, Values, Personal Background, Participation in Decision Making, and Job Attitudes

Interrelationships among job involvement, values, personal background, participation in decision making, and job attitudes were investigated in manufacturing organizations. Job involvement was foun...

The Scanlon Plan: Causes and Correlates of Success

The Scanlon Plan (SP) is a systematic approach to enhancing organizational effectiveness through a formal participation program and a financial bonus. It has met with varying degrees of success. Th...

Retirement and Life Satisfaction

Demographic, personality, and job related correlates of life satisfaction and satisfaction with retirement associates, work and activities, and finances are reported for recently retired Civil Serv...

Generalizability of Individual Difference Moderators of the Participation in Decision Making-Employee Response Relationship

A considerable amount of research including numerous replications has indicated that individual difference moderators of the relationship between the job situation and employee responses do not gen...

Relationships between Job Motivation Variables and Interest Measures.

Abstract Eight-hundred and sixty graduating high school seniors responded to 120 items of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank designed to measure six interests and revised forms of the Job Description Inventory, the Job Diagnostic Survey, and Alderfers Existence, Relatedness, and Growth needs measures. Holland ( Making vocational choices: A theory of careers , Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973 ) hypothesizes that preferences for occupations indicate personality and motivational differences among respondents. The present study was conducted to determine if people who expressed high interest in a set of occupations could be characterized by a unique set of motivations. Canonical analysis revealed that the interest measures and the job-related motivational measures were significantly related along three dimensions. The low level of common variance between the two sets of measures, however, suggests that additional information concerning a persons possible career and job satisfaction and performance may be gained by using the job motivation variables in addition to the interest measures.

Prediction of Post-High School Labor Force Decisions

The present study investigates the utility of employing an interdisciplinary set of variables to predict labor force decisions. Comparisons of demographic, economic, high school experience, and psychological-motivational variables indicated that the best prediction of the post-high school plans of 1,074 high school seniors resulted from high school experience variables. However, a combination of the four sets of variables resulted in substantial improvement over any single set of predictors. It is suggested that laborforce behavior can be better understood and predicted if a multidisciplinary approach is utilized.