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The Self-Managed Work Team Environment: Perceptions of Men and Women

The present study empirically examined working behaviors of men and women within a self-managed working environment. Three models of women and work were studied. Results indicated women exhibited higher levels of job meaning and continuance commitment. The more self-managed production team exhibited higher levels of growth need strength, support from co-workers, continuance commitment, task significance and lower levels of role conflicts. Support teams exhibited higher levels of autonomy and satisfaction with pay. Path analysis, testing a model based on Astin's sociopsychological model indicated direct effects from expectancy to general satisfaction, from gender to expectancy, and task significance to gender. An alternative model showed direct effects between general satisfaction and expectancy, satisfaction with pay, task significance and expectancies, and between satisfaction with pay and teams.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500806
Date08 1900
CreatorsMartins-Crane, Lolin
ContributorsBeyerlein, Michael Martin, Johnson, Douglas A., Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd, Yeatts, Dale E.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatviii, 136 leaves: ill., Text
RightsPublic, Martins-Crane, Lolin, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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