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Core self-evaluations
About: Core self-evaluations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1483 publications have been published within this topic receiving 95787 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the limitations of the Minnesota Work Adjustment Project (MWAP) for job satisfaction research are discussed and the results of a study with 806 manufacturing plant employees, that assessed the external validity and generalizability of Scarpello and Campbell's findings.
Abstract: There is a preponderance of theory postulating that the level of job satisfaction is a direct function of the perceived discrepancy between what the employee desires from a job and what the employee actually receives from it. To date, the only job satisfaction research program that has systematically examined the relationship between job satisfaction and the degree to which perceptions of job rewards match the expressed desires of the individual is that conducted by the Minnesota Work Adjustment Project (MWAP). Although the MWAP has had success in predicting job satisfaction some of the time, it also encounters many unpredictable cases. Based on research with industrial R&D personnel, Scarpello and Campbell (1983a) suggested that one reason for the unpredictable cases is that people's views of their occupations and careers help explain their reactions to current job situations. This paper discusses the limitations of the MWAP for job satisfaction research and reports the results of a study with 806 manufacturing plant employees, that assessed the external validity and thus, generalizability of Scarpello and Campbell's (1983a) findings. Results supported the external validity and generalizability of the previous findings. Implications for future job satisfaction research are discussed.
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01 Jan 2002
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TL;DR: In this article, a large national sales force was used to compare job satisfaction and life satisfaction across three organizational levels, finding that there is a strong correlation between job satisfaction with life satisfaction regardless of job level.
Abstract: The relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction has been the focus of a great deal of research in the social sciences for over thirty years, yet very few studies on this topic exist in the business disciplines and none exists in the study of the sales force. Using a large national sales force, this study compares job satisfaction and life satisfaction across three organizational levels. Findings indicate a strong correlation between job satisfaction and life satisfaction regardless of job level. Significant decreases in certain satisfaction areas were found between territory managers and district managers. Important implications are examined for both industry and researchers.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of congruence between personality and task-demands on job satisfaction was examined based on the idea that employees become distressed when asked to perform activities that require trait elevations inconsistent with their own.
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TL;DR: This paper found that work-specific CSE generally failed to yield significantly stronger zero-order relationships with work-related criteria than general CSE, and several instances in which work specific CSE predicted incremental variance in work related criteria after the effects of general CESE were controlled.
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