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Attention State and Critical Psychological States as Mediators Between Job Dimensions and Job Outcomes
Shaul Fox,Gerald Feldman +1 more
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In this paper, an intervening variable, activity-related-attention (ARA), representing the arousal level, is proposed as an intervening Variable linking job characteristics to job outcomes. But, it was found that ARA was found to contribute little to job-related attentional states.Abstract:
Activity-related-attention (ARA), representing the arousal level, is proposed as an intervening variable linking job characteristics to job outcomes. Two initial studies evaluated a new ARA state questionnaire assessing job-related attentional states. Worker responses displayed high internal consistency and were related to job satisfaction as well as to differences between mundane and enjoyable activities. Student responses displayed high test-retest correlations over a 2-week period. The third study compared the relative role of attention/arousal vs. the critical psychological states (CPS) appearing in Hackman and Oldham's (1976) job characteristics model. Questionnaires completed by 119 employees dealt with (1) job characteristics, (2) job outcomes of work satisfaction, effort, and performance, and (3) ARA state, and CPS. Regression analyses indicated that CPS tended to have a stronger mediating role than ARA in the relation between job characteristics and outcomes. However, ARA was found to contribute ...read more
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Integrating Motivational, Social, and Contextual Work Design Features: A Meta-Analytic Summary and Theoretical Extension of the Work Design Literature
TL;DR: The authors developed and meta-analytically examined hypotheses designed to test and extend work design theory by integrating motivational, social, and work context characteristics to suggest numerous opportunities for the continued development of work design Theory and practice.
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The Critical Psychological States: An Underrepresented Component in Job Characteristics Model Research
TL;DR: The mediating role of the critical psychological states (CPS) in the job characteristics model was examined in two studies as mentioned in this paper, and the results provided the strongest support for a job characteristics modeI that allowed the core job dimensions to have direct and indirect effects on personal and work outcomes, further supporting the Study 1 finding that the CPS were partial mediator variables.
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A review and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the job diagnostic survey
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the test-retest reliability, internal consistency, scale discrimination, factorial validity, convergent validity across raters and methods, and methods bias of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS).
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The mediating role of job involvement in the relationship between job characteristics and organizational citizenship behavior.
Chien-Cheng Chen,Su-Fen Chiu +1 more
TL;DR: Investigating the mediating process of job involvement in the relationship between job characteristics and OCB shows that the 3 job characteristics (i.e., task identity, task significance, and autonomy) positively influenced the display of an employee's OCB, whereas skill variety had a negative effect on OCB.
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A review of research on the job characteristics model and the attendant job diagnostic survey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the validity of the Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham, 1980) by reviewing relevant studies of the model and found that the dimensionality of the job characteristics is best represented by the five-factor solution as proposed by the model.
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