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Dispositions and work reactions: a multilevel approach.

M A Griffin1

  • 1School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. m.griffin@qut.edu.au

The Journal of Applied Psychology
|January 5, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Stable personality traits, like neuroticism and extraversion, significantly influence employee work reactions, including job satisfaction. This study highlights how individual dispositions explain more variance in work attitudes at the group level than previously understood.

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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Psychology
  • Industrial-Organizational Psychology
  • Workplace Behavior

Background:

  • Individual differences in stable dispositions are often studied in relation to work attitudes.
  • Previous research at a single level of analysis suggests dispositions can lessen the impact of work characteristics on reactions.
  • The role of dispositions in explaining variance in work reactions across different levels of analysis requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between stable individual dispositions and state-oriented work reactions.
  • To investigate how dispositions influence work reactions when considering multiple levels of analysis.
  • To determine if dispositions explain between-group variance in work affect and job satisfaction.

Main Methods:

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  • Utilized multiple levels of analysis to study employee work reactions.
  • Included dispositional measures (neuroticism, extraversion) and work reactions (job satisfaction, positive/negative work affect).
  • Analyzed data from employees in a state education system and an urban hospital.

Main Results:

  • The inclusion of dispositional measures increased the proportion of between-group variance in positive work affect, negative work affect, and job satisfaction.
  • Aggregate perceptions of excessive job demands explained more between-group variance in work reactions after dispositions were accounted for.
  • Findings contrast with single-level analyses, suggesting dispositions explain more group-level variance.

Conclusions:

  • Stable dispositions play a significant role in explaining between-group variance in work reactions.
  • The impact of dispositions on work reactions is more pronounced when considering group-level variance.
  • Future research should consider multi-level analyses to fully understand the interplay between dispositions and work characteristics.