Job Enlargement, Individual Differences, and Worker Responses
A Test with Black Workers in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7842802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Orpen (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 473-480 |
| Publication date | 1976-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002202217674008 |
| OpenAlex | W2164028577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
To test the Hulin-Blood hypothesis that job enlargement is only positively associated with job satisfaction among workers who are "involved" in their jobs, three groups of black workers in South Africa performing jobs of different sizes or degrees of enlargement were given a measure of individual urbanization and a Xhosa version of the Brayfield-Rothe index of job satisfaction. On the basis of their scores on the measure of urbanization and the length of time they had spent in a city or town of "white" South Africa, the subjects in each group were divided into Western and tribal subgroups. The level of job satisfaction of the three Western subgroups increased significantly as their jobs became larger or more enlarged, whereas those of the tribal subgroups remained the same-supporting the hypothesis
Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Index (typography · Job satisfaction · Resizing · Sociology · Test (biology · Urbanization · White (mutation · Xhosa · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Demography · Human Behavior and Motivation · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
Langa
An index of job satisfaction.
New patterns of management
Alienation and Freedom
Job enlargement, individual differences, and worker responses
Attitudes and Behaviour of Car Assembly Workers
Functional Specialization, Alienation, and Job Satisfaction
Turnover, Absence, and Transfer Rates as Indicators of Employee Dissatisfaction with Repetitive Work
Contemporary South Africa
Automation and the Division of Labor
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 1978 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |