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Article: The relation of work involvement to occupational needs, need satisfaction, locus of control, and affect.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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Work involvement, a normative belief about the value of work relative to the value of other pursuits (e.g., family, leisure; Kanungo, 1982), refers to the most general and perhaps also to the fundamental relationship people have with their working life. Until recently, the concept of work involvement has been viewed as separate from the more concrete concepts of job involvement and organizational involvement (Kanungo; Mathieu & Farr, 1991), largely because work involvement may have its own predictive characteristics. Researchers disagree about what these predictors might be, however; thus, there has been much confusion about the correlates of work involvement.
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