This study investigated whether the leader's locus of control moderated the relationship between perceived leader influence behaviors and certain subordinate outcome variables. The results showed that locus of control did significantly moderate the effect of supervisor influence on productivity and subordinate satisfaction with supervision. The difference in satisfaction with supervision was more extreme at high levels of subordinate perceived supervisor influence on productivity. Implications for supervisor training are discussed. ATTRIBUTION theory in general, and locus of control in particular, has emerged in recent years as an important theoretical foundation and unit of analysis in the study and research of organizational behavior. Although very popular in behavioral science research as a whole, only relatively few of the well over 600 studies on locus of control are related to attitudinal, motivational, and behavioral variables in organizarional settings (Spector, 1982).

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