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Higher‐order need strength as a moderator of the job scope‐employee outcome relationship: A meta‐analysis
Author(s) -
SPECTOR PAUL E.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1985.tb00187.x
Subject(s) - moderation , psychology , meta analysis , scope (computer science) , job satisfaction , order (exchange) , social psychology , job attitude , job performance , outcome (game theory) , applied psychology , business , economics , microeconomics , medicine , computer science , finance , programming language
A meta‐analysis was conducted to test the moderating effect of higher‐order need strength on the relationship between job scope and employee outcomes. Twenty samples were combined empirically using a modification of the Schmidt‐Hunter procedure. Results provided some evidence of the hypothesized moderator effect for job satisfaction, motivation and performance, with the evidence for job satisfaction being strongest. Employees high on higher‐order need strength demonstrated stronger correlations with all employee outcomes than employees low in need strength.