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The Effect Of Perceived Values On Negative Mentoring, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, And Perceived Career Success, Marcy Young Illies, Roni Reiter-Palmon
The Effect Of Perceived Values On Negative Mentoring, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, And Perceived Career Success, Marcy Young Illies, Roni Reiter-Palmon
Psychology Faculty Publications
This study addresses how perceived mentor and protégé values affect negative mentoring, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and perceived career success. Results indicate that protégés with mentors perceived to have self-enhancement values experienced more negative mentoring while protégés with mentors perceived to have self-transcendence values experienced less negative mentoring. Those who experienced negative mentoring had less organizational commitment, job satisfaction and perceived career success. It was also found that negative mentoring indirectly mediated between perceived mentor values and the protégé outcomes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and perceived career success).
The Dispositional Approach To Job Satisfaction: Trait Or State?, Sharlyn K. Whingham
The Dispositional Approach To Job Satisfaction: Trait Or State?, Sharlyn K. Whingham
Student Work
Job satisfaction has been one of the most extensively researched areas of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Although situational influences on job satisfaction have traditionally been the primary focus of research, staw and Ross (1985) asserted that job satisfaction may be determined as much by personal dispositions as situational factors. Specifically, they proposed that an individual's predisposition toward optimism or pessimism is a critical determinant of job satisfaction. However, subsequent empirical investigations purporting to test the influence of the trait-like predisposition of optimism/pessimism have employed measures of positive and negative affective states. This study attempted to disentangle the influence of temporary negative and …