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OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE AS A FACTOR IN THE NET RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATION AND JOB SATISFACTION
Author(s) -
WEAVER CHARLES N.
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.tb02330.x
Subject(s) - prestige , job satisfaction , psychology , occupational prestige , autonomy , social psychology , job attitude , job design , personnel psychology , job performance , demographic economics , demography , sociology , political science , socioeconomic status , economics , population , philosophy , linguistics , law
In contrast to earlier evidence that the relationship between level of occupation and job satisfaction is positive and monotonic, analysis of a recent national survey shows that craftsmen are more job satisfied than other males in clerical, sales, and professional‐technical occupations and that this variation is independent of a number of other variables. Removal of occupational prestige modifies the occupation‐job satisfaction relationship in a manner which suggests that job satisfaction may arise more from ascribed prestige than from such job characteristics as work autonomy, authority, and income.