“…Following previous researchers (Hrebiniak and Alutto 1972;Angle and Perry 1983;Mathieu and Zajac 1990;Steinhaus and Perry 1996;Balfour and Weschler 1996;Sweeney and McFarlin 1997), six personal variables (gender, marital status, race, educational level, job tenure, and organizational tenure) were statistically controlled to reduce the possibility of spurious relationships based on unmeasured variables. Since gender, marital status, race, educational level were categorical in nature, these variables were initially dummycoded.…”