Employee Attachment and Noncoercive Conditions of Work The Case of Dental Hygienists

作者: CHARLES W. MUELLER , E. MARCIA BOYER , JAMES L. PRICE , RODERICK D. IVERSON

DOI: 10.1177/0730888494021002002

关键词: Organizational commitmentWork (electrical)Social integrationEthnologySociologyDistribution (economics)Labour economicsDental OfficesJob satisfactionAutonomyLegitimacy

摘要: Recent sociological arguments have claimed that employee attachment in corporatist organizations is produced, not with direct coercive measures, but indirectly by employers controlling various structural conditions of work. It argued this also occurs smaller do exhibit internal labor markets nor other organization characteristics. Specifically, are structured more traditionally the employer deciding work schedules, pay, distribution profits, and so on, features social integration, autonomy/participation, legitimacy authority structure just as important they larger firms. This claim generally supported data on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, intent to stay, turnover dental hygienists working offices controlled employer, dentist. Work group integration legitimacy-producting were foun...

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