Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Group 5:-
Gap 1—The Causes of Employee
Attitudes
• Dispositional Influences
– One of the first studies in this area (Staw & Ross,
1985) demonstrated that a person’s job satisfaction
scores have stability over time, even when he or she
changes jobs or companies.
– In another related study, childhood temperament was
found to be statistically related to adult job satisfaction
up to 40 years later. Evidence even indicates that the
job satisfaction of identical twins reared apart is
statistically similar
Dispositional Influences