Journal article
Judgments About Work: Dimensionality Revisited
Work and occupations, Vol.34(3), pp.290-317
08/2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110579
Abstract
The authors examine the measurement structure of individuals' orientations toward work rewards, or “judgments about work,” a concept central to the social psychology of work. Despite extensive and sustained interest in the level of importance attached to work rewards by major markers of social location such as birth cohort, social class origins, and gender, prior studies have not examined whether the same classification schema captures the underlying variation in judgments about work across these axes of social location. Drawing on five data sets, the authors examine the fit of models corresponding to the recently revived entrepreneurial–bureaucratic classification schema with those corresponding to the dominant extrinsic–intrinsic classification schema across subgroups of the population using confirmatory factor analysis. Findings offer only limited support for reconceptualizing judgments about work along entrepreneurial–bureaucratic dimensions but call for additional research on the dimensions of judgments about work that emerge under distinct conditions and across different groups.
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- Title
- Judgments About Work
- Creators
- Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson - Washington State UniversityJeylan T Mortimer - University of MinnesotaJennifer C Lee - Indiana UniversityMichael J Stern - Oklahoma State University
- Publication Details
- Work and occupations, Vol.34(3), pp.290-317
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900547227201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article