Job attitudes: A meta-analytic review and an agenda for future research.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-3-2022
Abstract
Given the importance and popularity of employee job attitudes in academics and practice (e.g., annual engagement surveys), it is crucial to explore and summarize previous developments in the literature to identify ways to advance the field. The current review takes a systematic approach to exploring the nomological network, including investigating redundancy, of seven common job attitudes. We present a portfolio of evidence relying on three primary studies and one meta‐analytic study (total k = 6631; total n = 3 309 205). Our results raise concerns about the measurement of select job attitudes. Further, job attitudes are moderately to strongly correlated with each other (most relations landing between ρ = .50 and .69) and have similar patterns of relationships with antecedents, correlates, and outcomes. Yet, relative weights analyses illustrate that some attitudes have more validity in predicting key employee outcomes than others, which points to theoretically relevant utility concerns among specific job attitudes. This review offers a contribution by synthesizing the literature and developing a future research agenda based on the current findings that will advance the field further. Finally, this work offers a primer on job attitudes, with definitions, applicable theoretical frameworks, scales and items, and empirical relationships between key constructs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2598
Recommended Citation
Woznyj, H. M., Banks, G. C., Whelpley, C. E., Batchelor, J. H., & Bosco, F. A. (2022). Job attitudes: A meta-analytic review and an agenda for future research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(5), 946–964. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2598
Original Citation
Woznyj, H. J., Banks, G. C., Whelpley, C., Batchelor, J., Bosco, F. Job attitudes: A meta-analytic review and an agenda for future research. Journal of Organizational Behavior