THE EFFECTS OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND JOB PERIPHERALITY ON THE WORK ATTITUDES OF FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME NURSING PROFESSIONALS.
Contributors: Ohio University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Psychology, Industrial.
Description: The present investigation represents an attempt to expand the existing literature on the relationship between employment status and employee work attitude profiles through an examination of 336 full-time and 160 voluntary part-time Ohio Nurses Association (ONA) female, nursing professionals. The present investigation also examines the work attitude profiles of full-time and voluntary part-time employees maintaining either a peripheral or nonperipheral relationship with their present employment arrangement. Furthermore, the present investigation examines the relative influence of demographic and employment factors on formation of work-related attitudes beyond that explained by employees' employment status classification.

Of 1304 questionnaires mailed to ONA members in the Cincinnati and Youngstown, Ohio areas, 583 were returned. Respondents were classified as full-time, voluntary part-time, or involuntary part-time employees. The peripheral and nonperipheral subgroups were created based upon responses to the Job Involvement Questionnaire (Kanungo, 1982), Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (Porter, et al., 1974), and Career Commitment scale (Blau, 1985). Peripheral employees scored below the 45th percentile on each of these scales, while the nonperipheral employees scored above the 55th percentile on each of these scales. Employees failing to display peripheral or nonperipheral orientations were excluded. Work attitudes examined included overall job satisfaction, satisfaction with supervision, promotion opportunities, pay, coworkers, work, role conflict, intentions to turnover, responsibility for work outcomes, and intrinsic work motivation. Marital status, parental status, job position, and reason for working were controlled as covariates.

The results show that employee subgroups formed by the interaction between job peripherality and employment status do not display significantly different attitudinal profiles; employment status fails to account for a significant amount of the variance in employees' responses to all 10 attitudinal measures; full-time and voluntary part-time subgroups define overall satisfaction through the use of similar JDI facet satisfaction scales; the turnover intentions of peripheral employees are more predictable than those of nonperipheral employees; significantly different attitude profiles are not displayed by low, medium, and high hour voluntary part-time employees; and an insufficient number of involuntary part-time employees precluded further expansion of the involuntary and voluntary part-time employee work attitude literature.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-06, Section: B, page: 3195.

Thesis (PH.D.)--OHIO UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 0167.