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Gender Differences in Work Satisfaction, Work-Related Rewards and Values, and the Determinants of Work Satisfaction
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In this paper, the authors investigated possible gender-related differences in perceptions of work rewards, work values, overall work satisfaction, and the determinants of work satisfaction and identified a number of similarities as well as differences between male and female workers regarding their perceptions and attitudes about work.Citations
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A General Approach for Representing Constructs in Organizational Research
TL;DR: A key assumption underlying methods of construct validation is that constructs and their indicators are represented at the appropriate depth (i.e., the specificity versus generality of constructs a... as discussed by the authors.
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Sex differences and similarities in job attribute preferences: A meta-analysis.
TL;DR: Many job attributes became relatively more important to women and girls in the 1980s and 1990s compared with the 1970s, indicating that women's aspirations to obtain job attributes rose as gender barriers to opportunity declined.
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Processes Linking Work and Family: A Critical Review and Research Agenda
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the theoretical frameworks currently used to explain the processes through which work and family are linked, i.e., segmentation, compensation, and spillover, and argued that a fuller understanding of these processes is necessary to adequately evaluate the effectiveness of family supportive policies currently being implemented by many U.S. firms, as well as to identify additional strategies for helping workers find satisfaction in both their work and personal roles.
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Work values: An integrative framework and illustrative application to organizational socialization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a comprehensive definition of work values and a structural framework that reflects the central elements of the construct and reduces confusion over its conceptual boundaries, with one continuum ranging from personal to social consensus-type values and the other axis corresponding to moral versus preference values.
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Personal correlates of job satisfaction: empirical evidence from UK universities
TL;DR: This paper found that the rank of an individual and the length of service he/she has worked within higher education are significant predictors of the level of the individual's overall job satisfaction.
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Work and motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance, including motivation, goal incentive, and attitude.
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What is job satisfaction
TL;DR: Using Rand's theory of emotions as a starting point, the concepts of satisfaction, dissatisfaction, value, emotion, and appraisal, and their interrelationships are discussed, and the present theory of job satisfaction is contrasted with previous theories.