A Study of Supervisor and Employee Perceptions of Work Attitudes in Information Age Manufacturing Industries

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Demographic Effects of Work Values and Their Management Implications

“…Instead, men employees gave higher ratings on all of the five work value factors, which indicated that men employees had more positive feelings on work values than did women employees. This result differs greatly from many of the previous findings that females are more likely to exhibit better work attitudes than their male counterparts (Azam, 2002;Furnham and Muhiudeen, 1984;Hill, 1997;Petty and Hill, 1994).…”

“…One trend in the labor force has been the increase of information age jobs that are high-discretion positions that require considerable thinking and decision-making on the part of workers (Miller, 1986). This is in contrast to more traditional industrial age jobs that tend to require obedience rather than decision-making skills (Azam, 2002). Due to the large impact that these information age workers have on the organization, positive work attitudes may be more important than ever before.…”

“…Normally women's social role of gender may lead to their lower job involvement than man and their double-role workload may also cause their lower job involvement. But there are also a number of studies in the past 20 years reported that females are more likely to exhibit better work attitudes than their male counterparts (Azam, 2002;Furnham and Muhiudeen, 1984;Hill, 1997;Petty and Hill, 1994). Rabinowitz and Hall (1977) found that gender has a positive correlation with work values, with women employees showing higher job involvement than men.…”

“…There is a relatively large body of literature about the demographic differences of work values. However, most of the research has focused on a single demographic variable, such as age (Itzhak, 1999;Joyner, 2000;Rhodes, 1983); gender (Azam, 2002;Boatwright and Slate, 2000;Hill, 1997); education (Pastor, 1982;Rowley, 1996;Sekaran, 2000) and other variables like tenure (Mowday et al, 1979). There's a little concern about position status in the organization.…”

<p>Supervisor’s Perceptions of the Work Attitudes of Two Groups of Employees</p>

“…Using the OWEI, Minton (1997) found a significant difference between employers' expectations of work ethic and the self-perceived work ethic of secondary school students. In a recent study, Azam (2002) found significant differences between employees' self-perceived work attitudes and their work attitudes as rated by their supervisors. In the same study, significant differences in work attitudes were obtained between information and noninformation employees.…”