Toward an Organizational Behavior of Contract Laborers: Their Psychological Involvement and Effects on Employee Co-Workers.
Academy of Management Journal · 1993 · Volume 36 · Issue 5
Abstract
This study investigated differences in the psychological involvement and task assignments of labor-contractor and employee engineers and the effects of the contractors on the attitudes of their employee co-workers. Findings partly supported the hypothesis that supervisors shift interdependent tasks to employees when contractors are present in their work groups. However, employees were not found to have greater quasi-moral involvement than contractors. In addition, the presence of contractor co-workers was associated with employee reports of lower organizational trustworthiness, as expected.
Keywords
ORGANIZATIONAL behavior, CONTRACT labor, EMPLOYEES -- Attitudes, CONTRACTORS -- Psychology, INDUSTRIAL organization, ORGANIZATIONAL structure, DIVISION of labor, PROFESSIONAL ethics, EMPLOYEE loyalty, ORGANIZATIONAL commitment, WORK sharing, EMPLOYEES -- Psychology
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