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How Negative Affectivity Moderates the Relationship between Shocks, Embeddedness and Worker Behaviors
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Holtom, Brooks C.; Burton, James P.; Crossley, Craig D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
We integrated the unfolding model of turnover, job embeddedness theory and affective events theory to build and test a model specifying the relationship between negative shocks, on-the-job embeddedness and important employee behaviors. The results showed that embeddedness mediates the relationship between negative shocks and job search behaviors…
Descriptors: Employees, Labor Turnover, Models, Behavior
Toward a Better Understanding of the Effects of Hindrance and Challenge Stressors on Work Behavior
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Webster, Jennica R.; Beehr, Terry A.; Christiansen, Neil D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
This study investigated the processes whereby hindrance and challenge stressors may affect work behavior. Three mechanisms were examined to explain the differential effects these stressors have demonstrated: job satisfaction, strains, and work self-efficacy. A model is proposed in which both types of stressors will result in increases in strains,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Job Performance, Stress Variables
Personality Facets and RIASEC Interests: An Integrated Model
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Armstrong, Patrick Ian; Anthoney, Sarah Fetter – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
Research examining links between personality and interest have typically focused on links between measures of the five factor model and Holland's RIASEC types. However, the five factor model of personality can be divided in to a larger set of narrow domain personality scales measuring facets of the "big five" traits. Research in a number of fields…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Job Performance, Achievement Need, Motivation
The Relationship between the Three Components of Commitment and Employee Performance in China.
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Chen, Zhen Xiong; Francesco, Anne Marie – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2003
A three-component organizational commitment model was tested with 253 Chinese supervisor/supervisee dyads. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that affective commitment (AC) related positively to in-role performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB); continuance commitment correlated negatively with OCB. Normative commitment…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Foreign Countries, Job Performance, Models
Antecedents and Outcomes of Career Commitment.
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Aryee, Samuel; Tan, Kevin – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1992
A model of antecedents and outcomes of career commitment was tested with data from 510 of 650 Singaporean teachers and nurses surveyed. The model did not fit the data: career satisfaction did not affect career commitment directly or indirectly through organizational commitment. Career commitment was not significantly related to work quality. (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Models
What is Person-Environment Congruence? Supplementary versus Complementary Models of Fit.
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Muchinsky, Paul M.; Monahan, Carlyn J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1987
Proposes that there are two types of person-environment congruence: supplementary, the match between an individual and a group of people who comprise an environment, such as a fraternal organization (the rationale behind vocational counseling decisions); and complementary, the match between an individual's talents and the corresponding needs of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Counseling, Congruence (Psychology), Decision Making