Job enrichment and job satisfaction in greenfield and redesign QWL sites
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A random survey on job satisfaction and enrichment among blue-collar workers at five Ontario petrochemical plants found no attitudinal differences between employees participating in quality of work life programs and those working at traditional, unchanged sites. Three of the five sites were newly constructed, or 'greenfield' locations, and the other two were redesigned, existing sites. Greater potential for successful use of quality of work life programs was demonstrated at the greenfield sites than at redesign sites. Technologically intensive, continuous process production systems such as those found at petrochemical plants may permit only limited job-enrichment activity in quality of work life programs. Workers at redesign sites show lower satisfaction with job security, while greenfield site workers show lower satisfaction with wages.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1987
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Organizational restructuring: the impact on role perceptions, work relationships, and satisfaction
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The effect of an externally imposed restructuring on the organization is considered for satisfaction, role perceptions, and relationships among organizational members. Representative samples were selected randomly from a large, Midwestern organization, with two employee opinion surveys held at two points in time. The first survey was held about a year before restructuring and the second three months after restructuring. Results suggested that organizational level moderated the effect of the restructuring on supervision and security satisfaction among employees. The security satisfaction effect was found only for those persons who had experienced a job change within the immediately preceding 12 months before the second survey.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1988
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Communication quality and job satisfaction among managerial nurses: the moderating influence of job involvement
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Organizational communication research is extended to examine whether involvement with one's job affects the tie between perceived communication quality and job satisfaction. A questionnaire was used to obtain data from 93 managerial nurses in large urban hospitals in the US northeastern region. It was confirmed through this research that the quality of information received from one's immediate supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates is positively tied to job satisfaction among nurses who are highly involved with their jobs.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1988
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