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The Appropriateness of Management-by-Objectives for Development and Research Personnel.

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Mossholder, Kevin W.; Dewhirst, H. Dudley – Journal of Management, 1980

Examined the differential effects of a management by objectives (MBO) program on work satisfaction of development and research employee groups. Analyses indicated that these groups differed in perceptions of their work group climates and that facets of MBO explained significantly different amounts of variance in the groups' work satisfaction.…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Engineers, Job Satisfaction

Goal-Setting Attributes, Personality Variables, and Job Satisfaction

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Arvey, Richard D.; Dewhirst, H. Dudley – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976

The relationships between four goal-setting attributes identified by factor analytic procedures and job satisfaction were investigated among 271 scientists and engineers at a nuclear research and development center. Positive relationships between the goal-setting attributes and satisfaction were found. (Author)

Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis