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The role and expectancy participation model: An empirical assessement and extension
Author(s) -
Fry Louis W.,
Hellriegel Don
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030080403
Subject(s) - ambiguity , expectancy theory , job satisfaction , psychology , role conflict , social psychology , extension (predicate logic) , sample (material) , job attitude , empirical research , job performance , mathematics , computer science , chemistry , statistics , chromatography , programming language
Abstract Four hypotheses were investigated. The results substantially support and extend the usefulness of Schuler's role and expectancy participation model (1980). Schuler's model posits that participation intervenes to attenuate the relationships between job objectives and role conflicts and ambiguity. Also, participation, role conflict and role ambiguity are assumed to intervene to attenuate the relationships between job objectives and job satisfaction. The four hypotheses were tested using a sample of 187 retail store managers. Results revealed that job objectives were related to the role variables and satisfaction. Participation significantly attenuated the job objectives, role conflict and job satisfaction relationships. Implications for the use of the attributes of job objectives approach to integrate other objective setting paradigms are discussed.