Job satisfaction and gender identity of women managers and non-managers.
OBJECTIVE
This work investigates different cognitive aspects of job satisfaction (co-workers, supervisor, job content, working facilities, organization and management, opportunities for development, income), positive and negative affect at work and their relations to gender role orientation of women occupying managerial and non-managerial positions.


METHODS
The sample of 122 women (60 managers and 62 non-managers) completed a battery of instruments such as: the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Job Description Inventory by Neuberger and Allerbeck and the Job Affect Scale by Brief et al.


RESULTS
Most women managers represented androgynous and masculine types, while women non-managers belonged to androgynous and feminine types. Moreover, women with various degrees of sex-typing showed positive and negative affect at work. The most satisfied with income were masculine women managers, the least--feminine women non-managers.


CONCLUSIONS
These results may be applied in designing of motivational instruments to enhance job effectiveness and to eliminate unproductive behaviours such as absenteeism, high staff turnover.
Lipińska-Grobelny
Agnieszka
A
Department of Social Psychology, Labour and Occupational Consultation, Institute of Psychology, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland. agalg@poczta.onet.pl
Wasiak
Katarzyna
K
D000288:Administrative Personnel; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008875:Middle Aged; D012649:Self Concept; D055815:Young Adult