Dissertation Information for Jacqueline A. Maxin NAME: - Jacqueline A. Maxin
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of Pittsburgh (USA) (1981)
ADVISORS: - Ellen Detlefsen
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - E. Blanche Woolls - Martha L. Manheimer - Donald Shirey - Margaret M. Kimmel
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: MANAGERIAL JOB SATISFACTION, PERCEIVED-ACHIEVEMENT - JOB-CLIMATE, AND NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LIBRARIES
Abstract: The management literature indicates that job performance and job satisfaction will be facilitated if managers perceive their job climates in high achievement terms. To test the interaction and relationship of job satisfaction, perceived-achievement-job-climate, and need for achievement, and their relationship to seven demographic variables, the Brayfield and Rothe Job Questionnaire, Fineman's Job Climate Questionnaire and Work Preference Questionnaire, and a Personal Data Questionnaire were sent to 117 managers of small school, academic, public, and special libraries.
Sixty-nine useable returns indicate a positive correlation between job satisfaction and perceived-achievement-job-climate, and that perceived-achievement-job-climate has a more profound affect on job satisfaction than need for achievement alone or perceived-achievement-job-climate and need for achievement combined. Those in high achievement job climates were more satisfied than those in low achievement job climates, and men were less satisfied than women. Those in public and special libraries scored higher on perceived-achievement-job-climate than those in school and academic libraries, and those in special libraries scored higher on need for achievement than those in school and public libraries. Salary range correlated positively with need for achievement, and educational attainment correlated negatively with job satisfaction but positively with need for achievement.
Strategies like counseling, job enrichment, and learning-growth curves are needed to foster perceptions of high achievement job climates, particularly for those high in need for achievement. Future research should extend to other need and job climate dimensions, and include factor analyses of library job climates and personality profiles at varying need levels so that optimum individual-job climate formulations can be developed.
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