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BLACK‐WHITE DIFFERENCES IN WORK ENVIRONMENT PERCEPTIONS AND JOB SATISFACTION AND ITS CORRELATES
Author(s) -
JONES ALLAN P.,
JAMES LAWRENCE R.,
BRUNI JOHN R.,
SELLS S. B.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1977.tb02316.x
Subject(s) - psychology , job satisfaction , social psychology , perception , race (biology) , white (mutation) , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , botany , neuroscience , gene , engineering , biology
Numerous studies have reported racial differences in intelligence, abilities, motivation, job satisfaction, and so forth. Relatively few of these studies, however, limited their comparisons to blacks and whites experiencing similar work conditions. The present effort compared black ( n = 166) and white ( n = 1,451) sailors assigned to the same shipboard divisions in order to investigate possible differences in perceived work conditions, satisfaction, need strength, and relationships among these variables. Also explored were two hypothesized sources of race‐related satisfaction differences–differences in perceived work conditions and differences in need strength. The results tended to support the need strength hypothesis although satisfaction differences were fewer than expected.