title: The effects of need for achievement and need for independence on the relationship between perceived job attributes and managerial satisfaction and performance.
abstract: Work-manifest needs for achievement and independence were examined as moderators of relations between perceptions of five job attributes (skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feed-back) and job satisfaction and job performance among a sample of 346 middle-managers. Need for achievement and need for independence were unrelated to the perceived job attributor and to both job satisfaction and job performance. However, most of the relations between the perceived job attributes and both job satisfaction and job performance were significantly higher among the managers high in need for achievement and need for independence than among those low in these needs. These results point to the importance of differentiating between managers high and low in these needs when redesigning jobs.
authors.affiliation: Deakin University, Australia.
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authors.lastname: Orpen