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The Impact of Gender Similarity on Employee Satisfaction at Work: A Review and Re‐Evaluation*
Author(s) -
Peccei Riccardo,
Lee HyunJung
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00557.x
Subject(s) - similarity (geometry) , confounding , psychology , job satisfaction , social psychology , sample (material) , work (physics) , survey data collection , mathematics , statistics , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
We used data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to examine key unanswered questions about the impact of gender similarity on employee satisfaction at work. The study sample consisted of 11,848 men and 11,278 women from over 1700 workplaces across Britain. In line with gender‐specific compositional arguments, the effects of gender similarity were found to be asymmetrical for men and women, with similarity tending to have a greater positive impact on men than on women. The effects involved were primarily linear in nature. Net of the potentially confounding influence of other factors, they were also found to be quite weak, weaker than has commonly been suggested in the literature.