Core Self-Evaluations and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Organizational and Community Embeddedness

This study extends job embeddedness and job satisfaction theory in several notable directions. As hypothesized, structural equation modeling revealed that community embeddedness was a partial mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and job satisfaction. Contrary to job embeddedness theory, this study found that organizational embeddedness and job satisfaction were best represented by a single latent factor. Thus, organizational embeddedness did not act as a mediator of the relationship between core self-evaluations and job satisfaction nor did it act as a multiple mediator with community embeddedness. Explanations of these results and new avenues for research are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Management

Department dc:contributor.department

Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Oyler, Jennifer D.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Bonham, Thirwall W.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• smith, Wanda J.
• Singh, Kusum
• Connerley, Mary L.

• Job Satisfaction
• Job Embeddedness
• Core Self-Evaluations

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-10242007-153627

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/29360