EVENT AND AGENT: TOWARD A STRUCTURAL THEORY OF JOB SATISFACTION
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Personnel Psychology
- Vol. 34 (3) , 523-534
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00493.x
Abstract
This study evaluates a theory of job satisfaction based on two facets: event and agent. These two facets were derived from a study by Schneider and Locke (1971). In the present study, event and agent were conceptualized as two domain facets of a content universe of job satisfaction. On the basis of the above definition, a radex structure was hypothesized. 104 employees from 8 different industrial organizations in Israel were interviewed. They rated (a) their job satisfaction with respect to 11 job factors, and (b) their conception of influence upon these job factors. The intercorrelation matrix of job satisfaction was treated by a Guttman Smallest Space Analysis. The empirical space was interpreted for each facet individually, and then jointly. It is apparent that when job satisfaction is defined by two domain facets, the radex structure is confirmed.Keywords
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