Work values of white-collar employees as a function of sociological background

Abstract

More than 3,000 employees indicated their job orientation by ranking 6 intrinsic and 6 extrinsic factors. Father's occupations, the size of communities in which they worked, salary level, education, and sex were identified. In the low-salaried group (<$10,000), Ss whose fathers held primarily unskilled jobs were less intrinsically oriented than Ss whose fathers held primarily technical jobs. The latter group was, in turn, less intrinsically oriented than Ss with professional fathers. A positive relationship between intrinsic job orientation and community size was also found for the low-salaried group. No differences in job orientation were found in the high-salaried group as a function of either fathers' occupation or community size. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)