TITLE

Organizational Correlates of Employee Self-Esteem

AUTHOR(S)

Tharenou, Phyllis; Harker, Phillip

PUB. DATE

December 1982

SOURCE

Journal of Applied Psychology;Dec82, Vol. 67 Issue 6, p797

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The relationships between the organizational variables of job complexity, job level, job satisfaction, and job performance, and employee global self-esteem and sense of task competence were investigated in a multivariate study, controlling for personal-demographic and personal-psychological variables. Questionnaire data was collected from 166 male electrical apprentices. Regression analyses revealed that global self-esteem and sense of competence could be predicted by the four variables, with job level most associated with global self-esteem, and job satisfaction and complexity most associated with competence. The amount of explained variance in global self-esteem and competence increased with the addition of control variables. The nonorganizational variables of defensiveness, age, and urbanicity were most associated with global self-esteem, whereas job complexity and satisfaction remained the variables most highly associated with competence. Central life interest, growth need strength, and defensiveness moderated some of the competence-job satisfaction/performance relationships. The ability of organizational variables to account for substantial amounts of variance in competence, but not in global self-esteem, and the differential nature of the relationships between such variables and different types of esteem were discussed.

ACCESSION #

5111501

Tags: EMPLOYEES -- Attitudes;  SELF-esteem;  JOB satisfaction;  QUALITY of work life;  EMPLOYEE retention;  SELF-realization

 

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