Effects of Personal Values on the Relationship Between Participation and Job Attitudes

• Published in: Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 506 - 514
• Main Authors: White, J. Kenneth, Ruh, Robert A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca, N.Y Cornell University Graduate School of Business and Public Administration 01.12.1973; Cornell University, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Applied psychology; Attitude/Attitudes/Attitudinal; Attitudes; Correlations; Decision Making; Employee attitude; Employee attitudes; Employee motivation; Employees; Employees' representation in management; Industrial Personnel; Job satisfaction; Job/Jobs; Middle class; Normativity; Participate/Participatory/ Participation/ Participative; Participation; Psychological attitudes; Questionnaires; Social values; Statistical median; Studies; Theories; Value/Values/Valuation/ Valuations; Values; Work Attitudes
• ISSN: 0001-8392; 1930-3815
• DOI: 10.2307/2392202

The moderating effects of individual values on the relationships between participation in decision making and job attitudes were investigated for a sample of 2,755 employees from six manufacturing organizations. The correlations between participation in decision making and job attitudes were consistently positive and significant for the total sample and within the different value subgroups. No support was obtained for the hypothesized moderating effects of values on the relationships between participation and job attitudes. Possible methodological weaknesses are discussed, as well as the implication of these and other negative findings on generalizing about individual differences moderating this relationship.