Organizational Structure’s Relationship to Job Satisfaction: Moderating Effects of Personality
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Authors
Picardi, Carrie A.
Issue Date
2017-03-24
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Job satisfaction , Organizational structure
Alternative Title
Abstract
The present study examined the relationship between organizational structure and job satisfaction, as well as investigated the moderating effects of conscientiousness and agreeableness on both variables. Results showed that while there is a strong relationship between organizational structure and satisfaction, personality traits also make a significant contribution to satisfaction and engagement at work. In the present study, personality factors showed moderating effects on the structure-satisfaction relationship in a manner that agreeableness drove higher satisfaction in organic organizational structures that it did in mechanistic structures. Post hoc investigations revealed extremes of high/low agreeableness driving or depressing job satisfaction depending on individual level on conscientiousness.