Job Attitudes
Also known as: Job Satisfaction
Framework treating job satisfaction as a global evaluative judgment about one's job — a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's work — distinct from facet satisfactions (pay, supervision, colleagues) and from mood at work. Global measures like the MOAQ-JSS capture the overall appraisal directly rather than summing facets.
- Source:
- Locke, E. A. (1976). The nature and causes of job satisfaction. In M. D. Dunnette (Ed.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 1297-1349). Chicago: Rand McNally.
Constructs
General Job Satisfaction
The global evaluative judgment of one's job as a whole — a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's work (Locke, 1976) — measured directly rather than by summing facet satisfactions such as pay, supervision, or colleagues. As operationalized by the MOAQ-JSS (Cammann et al., 1983), it captures the overall verdict the job's pieces add up to; it moves more slowly than mood and is distinct from momentary affective states at work.
Instruments
- Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire — Job Satisfaction Subscale(MOAQ-JSS)Cammann, Fichman, Jenkins & Klesh1983