Role ambiguity, role conflict, and satisfaction: Moderating effects of individual differences.

Abstract

The moderating effects of need for achievement and need for independence on relationships between role ambiguity, role conflict, and job satisfaction were investigated. Subjects were 90 military and civil service personnel. Results indicated that need for achievement moderates relationships between intersender role conflict and satisfaction and between task ambiguity and satisfaction, while need for independence moderates the relationship between intersender conflict and satisfaction.

Role Stress: A Career Stage Comparison

“…The present findings also support the studies of other researchers (Jepson & Forrest, 2006;Johnson & Stinson, 1975;Morris & Synder, 1979;Steers & Spencer, 1977). These respondents, because of their acute needs for achievement and affiliation and power, experienced significantly lesser occupational stress arising from overall role stress, role stagnation, role expectation conflict, role erosion, role overload, personal inadequacy, self role distance, role ambiguity, and resource inadequacy.…”

“…Whitely et al (1991) argued that motivational variables are likely to be influential in predicting career success. Achievement motivation not only paves the way for career success but also is found to buffer the undesirable effects of role stress on job satisfaction and other job related outcomes (Johnson & Stinson, 1975;Morris & Synder, 1979;Steers & Spencer, 1977) whereas affiliation oriented behavior could be linked to social support. Ganster et al (1986) predicted that the positive relation between stress and strain like depression and job dissatisfaction could be moderated by various sources of support.…”

Role stress and turnover intentions among information technology personnel in South Africa: The role of supervisor support

“…These norms of high turnover of IT personnel are also a persistent challenge facing many South African organisations (Igbaria, Meredith & Smith, 1995;Smith & Speight, 2006;Naidoo, 2016). Factors such as role ambiguity, role conflict, role overload, exhaustion, stress and burnout offer useful explanations for turnover decisions in IT (Johnson & Stinson, 1975). A number of studies report that role-related demands, insufficient time to keep abreast with changing technologies, lack of resources and lack of support are among the primary sources of stress facing IT personnel (Ghapanchi & Aurum, 2011).…”

The Influence of Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity on The Employee’s Performance Through Commitment and SelfEfficacy (Study on the Nurses at Public Health Service Center of Kabupaten Kediri, East Java)

“…Most researches about role conflict and role ambiguity frequently correlated these two concepts with job satisfaction (Johnson and Stinson, 1975;Keller, 1975) even for the recent research by Cervoni (2007). Yet, Fisher and Gitelson (1983) had tried to broaden the understanding on the relationship between role conflict and role ambiguity with other constructs.…”