Consensus in work role requirements: The influence of discrete occupational context on role expectations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dierdorff, Erich C.; Morgeson, Frederick P.
• 署名单位: DePaul University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.5.1228
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1228-1241
• 关键词: job analysis; job design; work role requirements; context; Role theory

摘要

Although role theory has long described how expectations shape role behavior, little empirical research has examined differences among work role requirements and how features of the discrete occupational context may influence the extent to which role expectations are shared among role holders. The authors examined consensus in work role requirements from a sample of over 20,000 incumbents across 98 occupations. They found that consensus systematically decreased as work role requirements ranged from molecular tasks to responsibilities to molar traits. In addition, they found that consensus in these work role requirements was significantly influenced by the amount of interdependence, autonomy, and routinization present in the surrounding task and social contexts.