The role of self-leadership and employment characteristics in predicting job satisfaction and performance

• Main Author: Roberts, Heather Elise
• Other Authors: Psychology
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: LD5655.V855 1993.R635; Employee motivation; Employees > Rating of; Job satisfaction
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44877; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192009-040538/

Recent research in organizational psychology has recognized the value of exploring the person-situation interactional perspective as a determinant of work outcomes. The present field study investigated the interaction between a dispositional characteristic (self-leadership) and two situational characteristics (job autonomy and supervisory structure) in determining job satisfaction and employee performance. The situational characteristics accounted for a significant amount of variance for both job satisfaction and performance; however, self-leadership only accounted for significant unique variance in employee performance. Results showed significant effects for the hypothesized interaction for job satisfaction; however, the proposed interaction for performance was not supported. Implications of the current results and suggestions for future research are discussed. === Master of Science