Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Work and Occupations
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by WALSH, J. P.
Right arrow Articles by TSENG, S.-F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Effects of Job Characteristics on Active Effort at Work

JOHN P. WALSH

University of Illinois at Chicago

SHU-FEN TSENG

Chung-Tai Medical Junior College

Building on previous research on worker extra-role effort, the authors focus their analysis on the correlates of one subset of behaviors that they call active effort. The authors argue for an exchange model, with organizations offering intrinsic, social, and material inducements in exchange for active effort by workers. Using data from a telephone survey of 270 employed adults in a large midwestern metropolitan area, the authors test a model that measures a variety of structural variables to see how they affect the level of active effort. The authors find that active effort is related to the extent to which a worker is allowed to participate and to recognition. After controlling for other variables, they found that satisfaction has little independent effect on active effort. Relations to supervisors, seniority, and wages have no net effects on active effort, although they are associated with increased satisfaction. Also, high white-collar employees report significantly higher active effort and satisfaction.

Work and Occupations, Vol. 25, No. 1, 74-96 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0730888498025001005
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Work and OccupationsHome page
C. Kim and A. Sakamoto
Does Inequality Increase Productivity?: Evidence From U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1979 to 1996
Work and Occupations, February 1, 2008; 35(1): 85 - 114.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Work and OccupationsHome page
L. GRUNBERG, R. ANDERSON-CONNOLLY, and E. S. GREENBERG
Surviving Layoffs: The Effects on Organizational Commitment and Job Performance
Work and Occupations, February 1, 2000; 27(1): 7 - 31.
[Abstract] [PDF]