A meta-analysis and review of organizational research on job involvement.
verifiedrich profile · Psychological Bulletin · 1996
Brown, Steven P.
How this was studied
A meta-analytic synthesis — it pools many primary studies rather than running a single design, so there is no single-study diagram.
What this article reports
The findings we extracted from this work, normalized into Principia’s relationship form (X → Y). Each feeds the synthesized models below.
job involvement → task performance
job involvement → job satisfaction
job involvement → turnover intention
Models this article informs
The meta-analytic priors this article contributes evidence to — its place in the broader synthesis.
job involvement correlates job satisfaction
job involvement correlates task performance
job involvement predicts job satisfaction
job involvement predicts organizational commitment
job involvement predicts task performance
job involvement predicts turnover intention
In the authors’ words
The article’s own abstract.
The author develops a theoretical framework relating job involvement to its antecedents, correlates, and consequences and reports meta-analyses of 51 pairwise relationships involving job involvement. Results of the meta-analyses support research suggesting that job involvement is influenced by personality and situational variables. Job involvement was strongly related to job and work attitudes but not to role perceptions, behavioral work outcomes, negative side effects, or demographic variables. Moderator analyses indicated little difference in the strength of relationships based on involvement measure. The author found modest but systematic differences in the strength of relationships between studies of employees of public versus private organizations. He compares and contrasts the results of this study with meta-analytic findings regarding organizational commitment, discusses important theoretical considerations in the research stream, and offers suggestions for future research.
What the literature says about it
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supports “Similarly, job involvement is related to intentions toward work-related behaviors and outcomes (Brown, 1996; Shore et al., 1990) including turnover intentions (Blau & Boal, 1987).”
supports “Job involvement has been found to be positively related to effort, various facets of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and low turnover intention (Brown, 1996).”
supports “The relationship between job involvement and performance is based on the assumption that this state of psychological identification with the job precedes and triggers processes that influence performance, as well as motivation, effort, turnover, or absenteeism [66].”
supports “1 3 Job involvement can also be seen as a mediator between personal or job characteristics on the one hand and work behaviors such as effort and performance on the other (Brown 1996).”
supports “This relationship has been supported in various professions, including teaching, where higher job involvement is linked to increased personal fulfillment and job satisfaction [5, 58].”
disputes “While some research has found that job involvement predicts supervisorrated job performance (Diefendorff et al., 2002), a meta-analysis concluded that there is little support for a positive relation between job involvement and job performance (Brown, 1996).”
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