Job needs, job satisfaction, and job behavior of women manual workers.

Abstract

Two thousand one hundred and fifty-nine female workers and 236 female ex-workers associated with several British electronics firms were given a forced-choice questionnaire and unstructured interview, to investigate their attitudes to various aspects of their jobs. Twenty-one percent of the present workers and 36% of the ex-workers expressed overall dissatisfaction with their jobs, which were of a highly rationalized type. An analysis of their responses indicated the overriding importance of the actual work done as a determinant of job dissatisfaction. An analysis of the reasons for leaving given by the exworkers indicated that voluntary labor turnover resulted mainly from job dissatisfaction.

Meaning and measurement of turnover: Comparison of alternative measures and recommendations for research.

“…For example, if some of this turnover reflected the organization's decision that it no longer wanted or needed the individual (e.g., termination for poor performance or layoff for reduction in force), then it would be unreasonable to expect that motivational models would predict this involuntary turnover. Studies in which both voluntary and involuntary turnover were explicitly examined have found them differentially predictable (e.g., Campion & Mitchell, 1986;MacKinney & Wollins, 1959;McEvoy & Cascio, 1987;Stumpf & Dawley, 1981;Wild, 1970).…”

Motivation, Satisfaction, and Morale in Army Careers: A Review of Theory and Measurement

“…For a representative sample, the recder is urged to see Gadel (1953), Gruenfeld (1962), Jurgenson (1947), Rosen and Weaver (1960), Schwartz, Jenusaitis, and Stark (1966), and Wild (1970).…”

Organizational, Work and Personal Factors in Turnover and Absenteeism

“…and dissatisfaction with the nature of work have been found among female clerical workers (Waters & Roach, 1971), female manual workers (Wild, 1970), male production workers (Telly et al, 1971) and computer salesmen (Kraut, 1970). One study, however, among female clerical workers, failed to find such a relationship (11ulin, 1968).…”