Goal-setting attributes, personality variables, and job satisfaction

Richard D. Arvey; H. Dudley Dewhirst

doi:10.1016/0001-8791(76)90076-2

Goal-setting attributes, personality variables, and job satisfaction

Richard D. Arvey, H. Dudley Dewhirst

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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. Further, it was found that need for achievement, need for autonomy, and need for affiliation as measured by the Gough Adjective Checklist did not significantly moderate the goal-setting attribute-job satisfaction relationships.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	179-189
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Vocational Behavior
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8791(76)90076-2
State	Published - Oct 1976

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This research was conducted under the National Science Foundation Research Improvement Grant NM44352. Send reprint rcqucsts to Richard Arvey, Department of Industrial and Personnel Management, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. TN 37916.

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Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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