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Publication date: 13 August 2018

Work-Related Attitudes in Organizations

Robert L. Dipboye

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The Emerald Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-785-220181007
ISBN: 978-1-78743-786-9

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Publication date: 23 November 2019

Influence of job stress on job satisfaction among younger bank employees in China: The moderating role of guanxi-oriented attitude

Xiaoyu Wu

This study aims to examine distinct influences of two dimension job stress on job satisfaction and the moderating effects of guanxi-oriented attitude on the relationship…

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Purpose

This study aims to examine distinct influences of two dimension job stress on job satisfaction and the moderating effects of guanxi-oriented attitude on the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction under cognitive appraisal theory and transactional theory.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, surveys are conducted among state-owned younger bank employees. The author uses the scale of job challenge stress and hindrance stress developed among Chinese younger bank employees to measure the two dimension job stress. After demonstrating guanxi-relative concepts, the moderating effects of guanxi-oriented attitude are examined in this study.

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The results demonstrate that guanxi-oriented attitude does not significantly moderate the influence of challenge stress on job satisfaction, while it significantly moderates the noxious influence of hindrance stress on job satisfaction. Theoretical contributions are also discussed.

Originality/value

First, this study suggests specific procedures to conduct hierarchical regression analysis and confirms the effects by parameters. It also proposes and summarizes specific procedures on how to calculate regression equations and draw regression lines to check the interaction received from the hierarchical regression analysis visually. Second, based on cognitive appraisal theory, guanxi-oriented attitude, a Chinese indigenous cognitive concept, was verified in this study. According to the importance of guanxi in Chinese society, the paper shows that employees who value guanxi more will buffer the noxious effects of job stress. Trainings and counseling should be designed to regulate the normal guanxi-oriented-related cognition.

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Chinese Management Studies, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-07-2017-0182
ISSN: 1750-614X

Keywords

  • Job satisfaction
  • Moderating effect
  • Challenge stress
  • Guanxi-oriented attitude
  • Hindrance stress

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Publication date: 11 January 2016

An extended model of the interaction between work-related attitudes and job performance

Santiago Melián-González

The purpose of this paper is to test a comprehensive work-related attitudinal model relevant for job performance by extending the perceived organizational support (POS)…

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The purpose of this paper is to test a comprehensive work-related attitudinal model relevant for job performance by extending the perceived organizational support (POS), job satisfaction, and organizational commitment model with both perceived supervisor support (PSS) and psychological contract breach attitudes.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed model was tested using a sample of a company’s 104 employees and through partial least squares analysis.

Findings

A total of 23 percent of the variance in job performance was explained. Interactions among attitudes were all significant. PSS and psychological contract breach accounted for 70 percent of the POS variance.

Research limitations/implications

There is a risk of common-method bias. The cross-sectional design limits making causal inferences.

Practical implications

Instead of measuring employee attitudes in an amorphous way, managers can rely on the included attitudes since these are significant for job performance. The construct’s content allows managers to elaborate specific practices to improve staffs’ attitudinal state.

Originality/value

This model incorporates five independent attitudes that any employee can experience. This is the first study that proposes and tests an interaction among all of them that is significant for job performance.

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International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, vol. 65 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-10-2014-0158
ISSN: 1741-0401

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  • Employees
  • Job satisfaction
  • Employee attitudes
  • Employment contracts

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Publication date: 29 May 2007

Antecedents of budgetary participation: enhancing employees' job performance

Desmond Yuen

This study aims to investigate two antecedents to participation in budgetary activities – a need for a sense of achievement and a positive work attitude – and then to…

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This study aims to investigate two antecedents to participation in budgetary activities – a need for a sense of achievement and a positive work attitude – and then to assess the impact of these two variables on job performance in the context of public‐sector organizations in Macau.

Design/methodology/approach

Data for the study were collected by a survey questionnaire administered to a sample of 216 managers in three departments of the Macau public service.

Findings

This paper demonstrates that the two antecedent factors – a positive work attitude and a need for achievement – have a significant positive relationship with budgetary participation. It is concluded that indirect relationships exist between the two antecedent variables (work attitude and a need for achievement) and the dependent variable (job performance), with participation in budgeting as an intervening variable.

Research limitations/implications

The results should be interpreted within the usual limitations of survey research. The participants volunteered to participate in the present study, and the sample was thus not strictly random. Because, less than 100 per cent of the questionnaires were returned, non‐response bias might exist.

Practical implications

The results of the study have implications for the design of effective budgeting planning control process in public‐sector organizations in Macau. In providing a formal conceptual framework, the paper argues that the interactive process of budgeting systems means that individual‐level factors are crucial to the achievement of budget plans.

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The results provide an improved understanding of the effect of individual‐level behaviour on job performance in a budgetary context on the basis of the current study's findings.

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Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02686900710750793
ISSN: 0268-6902

Keywords

  • Budgetary control
  • Job analysis
  • Achievement tests
  • Work psychology
  • Macau

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Publication date: 1 October 2004

Gender and job attitudes: a re‐examination and extension

Parbudyal Singh, Dale Finn and Laurel Goulet

Job attitudes, such as work commitment and job satisfaction, have attracted academic and practitioner attention for a number of reasons. Previous research indicates that…

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Job attitudes, such as work commitment and job satisfaction, have attracted academic and practitioner attention for a number of reasons. Previous research indicates that such attitudes have important organizational consequences, such as turnover, effort expenditure, and productivity. Earlier findings indicate that men and women have different attitudes towards their jobs. In this study, using a sample of 228 employees, the effects of gender on job attitudes was investigated. The results suggest support for the job model or structuralist perspective; that is, women and men have similar job attitudes once we control for work‐related and other variables.

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Women in Management Review, vol. 19 no. 7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09649420410563403
ISSN: 0964-9425

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  • Gender
  • Employee attitudes
  • Job satisfaction

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Publication date: 30 October 2009

Individual spirituality, workplace spirituality and work attitudes: An empirical test of direct and interaction effects

Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar

This paper aims to examine the direct effects of three workplace spirituality aspects – meaning in work, community at work, and positive organizational purpose – and…

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This paper aims to examine the direct effects of three workplace spirituality aspects – meaning in work, community at work, and positive organizational purpose – and individual spirituality on three work attitudes – job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment. It also seeks to examine the interactive effects of these three workplace spirituality aspects and individual spirituality on these three work attitudes.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper briefly outlines the existing workplace spirituality research, indicates the required research and places this study in that backdrop. It then outlines theory building for specifying a set of hypotheses. It uses data from a sample of managerial level employees from India to test the hypotheses.

Findings

The study results provided considerable support for the hypothesized relationships between workplace spirituality aspects and work attitudes but not for the hypothesized relationships between individual spirituality and work attitudes. The results provided only marginal support for the interactive effect model, which hypothesized that individual spirituality will moderate the effect of workplace spirituality aspects on work attitudes.

Research limitations/implications

Research implications of the findings outlined in this paper will encourage research to link various organizational topics such as leadership with workplace spirituality. They also highlight the need to examine more complex models to examine joint effects of workplace spirituality and individual spirituality on work attitudes.

Practical implications

The findings can provide some relevant inputs for leadership actions and organization development efforts aimed at implementing workplace spirituality in organizations.

Originality/value

The paper's value partly comes from the outlined research and practice implications.

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Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 30 no. 8
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01437730911003911
ISSN: 0143-7739

Keywords

  • Attitudes
  • Job satisfaction
  • Leadership
  • Research
  • Beliefs
  • India

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Publication date: 7 August 2017

Effect of information quality of employment website on attitude toward the website: A moderated mediation study

Chetna Priyadarshini, S. Sreejesh and M.R. Anusree

The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate an empirical model examining the job seekers’ perception about information quality of corporate employment websites…

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The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate an empirical model examining the job seekers’ perception about information quality of corporate employment websites and its impact on their attitude toward the websites through perceived playfulness and usefulness. Furthermore, the study also examines the job seekers’ e-trust as condition under which these mechanisms generate website attitude.

Design/methodology/approach

A sample of 385 active job seekers was selected through systematic random sampling. A web-based questionnaire was used to elicit responses for the study. Structural equation modeling was used to validate the proposed model.

Findings

Results indicate that the information quality dimensions positively influence perceived playfulness and perceived usefulness, which in turn evoke the website attitude. Furthermore, e-trust was found to moderate the above said relationships.

Originality/value

The study contribution lies in an empirical validation of a model showing the mechanisms and the condition through which the relationship exists between perceived information quality of e-recruitment websites and job seekers’ website attitude, and thus responds to the call for additional research that generalizes the influence of information characteristics of websites on job seekers’ behavioral outcomes.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 38 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-12-2015-0235
ISSN: 0143-7720

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  • Playfulness
  • Website attitude
  • E-trust
  • Information quality
  • Usefulness

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Publication date: 11 November 2013

Quality management and employees' attitudes: an example from certified enterprises

Maria Batista, Antonio Feijo and Francisco Silva

This study aims to investigate the implications of quality management system (QMS) practices in employees' attitudes relating to job involvement, job satisfaction, career…

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This study aims to investigate the implications of quality management system (QMS) practices in employees' attitudes relating to job involvement, job satisfaction, career satisfaction, and organizational commitment.

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This study was accomplished through the use of a questionnaire. Twenty hypotheses related to QMS practices and the employees' attitudes were formulated and tested.

Findings

The results indicate that responsibility and teamwork have a significant and positive correlation with job involvement, job satisfaction, career satisfaction, as well as organizational commitment. Ongoing improvement and problem solving have significant implications in organizational commitment. In addition, training and education, as well as customer focus, did not demonstrate any favorable contribution to the employees' attitudes.

Originality/value

The study recommends that management should be more committed to the development of quality practices to sustain and enhance employees' positive attitudes toward their job. Such practices are a competitive strategy to attract and retain competent employees.

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Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, vol. 11 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-01-2012-0468
ISSN: 1536-5433

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  • Attitudes
  • Employee

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Publication date: 30 August 2011

Employee empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment: An in‐depth empirical investigation

Sut I Wong Humborstad and Chad Perry

The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between perceived empowerment practices and Chinese service employee service effort and turnover intention, also to…

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The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between perceived empowerment practices and Chinese service employee service effort and turnover intention, also to examine the mediating role of employee job attitudes in this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

To test hypotheses about the relationships above, survey data were collected by a self‐administered questionnaire from frontline service workers at six four‐ and five‐star hotels in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China. The final sample of 290 participants rated empowerment practices in their workplace, as well as their job attitudes, service effort and turnover intention. Perceived empowerment practices were measured using items from Hayes' employee employment questionnaire. Employee job attitudes were measured using job satisfaction and organizational commitment scales based on Harrison et al. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the hypotheses.

Findings

Statistically significant results were obtained for a full mediating effect of job attitudes on the relationship between empowerment practices and turnover intention. However, the relationship between empowerment and Chinese employee service effort was insignificant.

Research limitations/implications

This study is cross‐sectional and so a longitudinal examination of the variables could be revealing. In addition, other moderating and/or mediating factors could exist such as demographic characteristics of service employees. Finally, most of the conceptual underpinnings for this study come from research carried out in Western countries and more work should be done within Chinese organisations and more qualitative research would be appropriate for theory‐building research.

Practical implications

Managers in service industries in China should carefully monitor employee job attitudes towards the empowerment practices. Owing to cultural differences on the high vs low power distance dimension in particular, managers from the West should not overlook how much empowerment is accepted among Chinese service employees.

Originality/value

Contributing to attitude engagement theory, job attitudes consisting of job satisfaction and organizational commitment explain the success of empowerment implementation in Chinese service organisations.

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Chinese Management Studies, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/17506141111163390
ISSN: 1750-614X

Keywords

  • China
  • Employee behaviour
  • Customer service management
  • Empowerment
  • Job attitudes
  • Job satisfaction
  • Organizational commitment
  • Turnover intention
  • Service effort

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Publication date: 1 August 2002

Teams as a learning forum for accounting professionals

Gary Kleinman, Philip Siegel and Claire Eckstein

The pace of organizational and environmental change seems to demand that such professional organizations as CPA firms become learning organizations in order to compete…

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The pace of organizational and environmental change seems to demand that such professional organizations as CPA firms become learning organizations in order to compete adequately with other firms. The flattening out of traditional hierarchical structures within organizations argues that traditional mentoring and supervisory structures may be inadequate for fostering needed individual learning and personal learning. One effect of the lack of such learning may be increased role stress, job burnout, loss of commitment to the organization, intention to leave, and diminished job satisfaction. Using a sample of 440 accounting professionals from major CPA firms in several regions of the USA, studies the ability of team social interaction processes within work teams to foster the personal, organizational, and team‐source learning, and also to influence attitudinal outcomes directly and indirectly. Also examines whether personal learning, organizational socialization and team‐source learning mediate the impact of team social interaction process on attitudinal outcomes. Uses a hierarchical regression‐based test to evaluate our hypotheses. The results supported our expectations. A structural equation modeling test of the model showed that organizational and personal learning mediated the relationship between team social interaction processes and the attitudinal outcomes, but team‐source learning did not.

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Journal of Management Development, vol. 21 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710210430614
ISSN: 0262-1711

Keywords

  • Accounting firms
  • Accountants
  • Learning
  • Job analysis
  • Staff turnover
  • Group working

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