This paper examines the status of higher-order need strength as a moderator ofthe relationship between job characteristics and employees' attitudes towards their jobs. It is argued that previous empirical work has been deficient in two important respects: (a) the measurement of the moderator has not been sufficiently independent of the measurement ofthe other variables in question, thus allowing response consistency to account for the results; and (b) analytical procedures have been employed which are severely restricted in their scope. The present investigation was designed to avoid both these deficiencies, and shows that higher-order need strength moderates the relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction. Comment is also offered on alternative statistical techniques for analysing data in which repeated measures of the moderator variable are used, or where the moderator is not linear in its effects.
This paper reports on the job expectations and perceptions and attitudes to work of 244 sixteen‐year‐olds who left school in 1975. They completed questionnaires during their last term at school and again during the year after leaving school. The prediction that their expectations of work quality would be higher than their perceptions was not supported. Nor was there found to be widespread dissatisfaction with work. Their training and induction to work are considered, as well as their opinions of the relationship between management and workers. Their views on industrial democracy are reported and the implications of the results are discussed.
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