Date of Award

Fall 1996

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Psychology

Program/Concentration

Psychology

Committee Director

Terry L. Dickinson

Committee Member

Robert M. McIntyre

Committee Member

Barbara A. Winstead

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.P65 L675

Abstract

Because downsizing and re-organizing have altered the social contract between employers and employees, employees have found additional incentive to grow and develop by adding to their portfolio of skills. In order to establish the validity of satisfaction with growth and development, an hypothesized model is tested and compared with competing models. 'our hundred and sixty three employees from a large southeastern city completed a questionnaire that examined attitudes regarding satisfaction with growth and development, general job satisfaction, and hypothesized antecedents (i.e., context and individual variables) and consequences (i.e., organizational commitment) of satisfaction with growth and development. LISREL VIII (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1993) was employed to examine the measurement models and structural models of the hypothesized and competing models, and statistical tests for differences between the structural models were conducted. The hypothesized structural model provided a significantly better fit to the data than the model without satisfaction with growth and development, and fit the data as well as another competing model. These results indicate that considering satisfaction with growth and development as a construct. separate from general job satisfaction adds explanatory information regarding organizational commitment, and allows for insight regarding the impact of antecedents on satisfaction with growth and development.

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DOI

10.25777/evw0-vm11

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