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Peer reviewedStaw, Barry M.; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
Reviews the debate between job enrichment and social-information-processing perspectives in organizational research. Posits a dispositional approach emphasizing the individual's role. Presents longitudinal study results showing that personality measures significantly predicted job attitudes over a 50-year period and that job and life satisfaction…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Job Enrichment, Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction
Download full textKauchak, Don; Peterson, Ken – 1986
Utah's involvement with career ladders grew out of the nationwide educational reform movement. The plan was to improve learning by improving the quality of teachers. This could be done by retaining superior teachers, attracting higher quality recruits, and improving teachers' working conditions. In 1984 the Utah Legislature focused on…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
Sorcinelli, Mary Deane; Billings, Deborah A. – 1992
A study examined untenured faculty at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) to determine their job satisfaction and work stress, changes in these areas over time, and ways the university could enrich their job experience. Two cohorts were studied via questionnaires. The first cohort comprised first-year faculty (N=23) and the second comprised…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, Collegiality, Comparative Analysis
