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Document Type |
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Article In Journal |
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Document Title |
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Job Involvement: A study of Personal and Situational Factors الانغماس الوظيفي : دراسة ميدانية لتأثير الصفات الشخصية والعوامل الظرفية |
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Subject |
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Puplic Administration |
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Document Language |
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Arabic |
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Abstract |
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The concept of job involvement plays a significant role in enhancing
productivity, employee needs, and quality of working life, there fore; improving job
involvement could be a main job design objective for manager attempting to improve
organizational function. However, little attention has been given to the issue known
about this class of job attitudes in the public administration literature written in Arabic.
The purpose of this study to examine the nature of job involvement through
investigating the relationships between job involvement and three categories of
variables:
(a) individual characteristics,
(b) situational characteristics, and
(c) the interaction between the personal and situational characteristics.
A survey was administered to a sample of 300 were randomly selected civil service
employees occupying a variety of jobs in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Of these, 248 responded
to the questionnaire, a response rate of 83%. Eleven subjects were dropped from the
sample due to missing data.
The study utilized a three part questionnaire. The first part was designed to provide
individual data regarding age, tenure, job rank, level of education, marital status, and
number of independents. The second part of the questionnaire consisted of a jobinvolvement
measure developed by Lodahl and Kejner. The third part of the
questionnaire consisted of Hackman and Lawler's conceptual model examining four core
job dimensions: (a) skill variety, (b) task identity, (c) task significance, (d) autonomy,
and (e) feedback.
It was found that personal background and job characteristics affect job
involvement for some extent. However, the stepwise multiple regression analysis reveled
that personal factors and situational factors were not equal in explaining the level of job
involvement. The results indicated that the two categories do not have an equal
importance in explaining the variance in the level of job involvement. It seems that
situational variables have stronger impact on the level of job involvement than personal
factors. Particularly the results indicated that personal factors were accounted for only a
little amount of variance in job involvement level (20%), while situational factors
accounted for (34%) of the variance.
Finally, conclusions are drawn regarding the nature of job involvement, and new
directions for future research are suggested. |
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ISSN |
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1319-0997 |
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Journal Name |
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Economics and Administration Journal |
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Volume |
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6 |
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Issue Number |
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1 |
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Publishing Year |
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1413 AH
1993 AD |
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Article Type |
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Article |
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Added Date |
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 |
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