Correlates of Work Autonomy
Year: 2012
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Work Autonomy (WA), as one of the important job characteristics and prerequisites of work motivation, performance, participation, satisfaction, commitment to organization and the like, has been asserted by many researchers in organizational behavior. However, such assumption has not been sufficiently tested so far in the literature. The present study, which is purely methodological and partly aiding decision makers, highlights that WA scales when administered to a sample of private manufacturing company workers who varied in their nature of work, revealed that the scales are internally reliable. The results also revealed that WA, with all its facets, had positive and significant correlations with the outcome variables such as job satisfaction, job involvement, participation in decision-making and commitment to organization. Further, WA dimensions predicted significant variations in all their correlates. Thus, implications are drawn for future work system design and the consideration for the inclusion of various facets of WA, while integrating the elements of such system design for total organizational productivity.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: S. F. Chandra Sekhar
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2279790500