A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF JOB INVOLVEMENT AS A PROCESS OF EGO-SURRENDER IN AN AMERICAN AND A JAPANESE ORGANIZATION.
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Title
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF JOB INVOLVEMENT AS A PROCESS OF EGO-SURRENDER IN AN AMERICAN AND A JAPANESE ORGANIZATION.
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Identifier
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AAI8423109
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identifier
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8423109
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Creator
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TOMIOKA, AKIRA.
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Contributor
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Sidney I. Lirtzman
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Business Administration, Management
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Abstract
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A sample of 291 employees from two organizations, an American company and a Japanese company, was investigated in terms of the degree of job involvement. The descriptive statistics revealed that the highest score of job involvement was attained by the Japanese male managers followed by the American female managers. The lowest level was scored by the Japanese female staff employees. No significant difference in terms of the degree of job involvement was found between the American sample and the Japanese sample. The results of correlational analyses indicated that intrinsic motivation was positively correlated with job involvement as well as ego-surrender. Extrinsic motivation, in turn, was negatively related to those variables. Thus, the importance of intrinsic nature of job involvement was upheld by the entire sample and by the Japanese sample. The American sample did show a similar relationship but not at a significant level. Further, the entire sample and the Japanese sample revealed significant correlation between job involvement, ego-surrender and predictor variables, but no meaningful difference was evidenced between job involvement and ego-surrender variables in terms of its relationships with predictor variables. The results of path analyses, based upon the Japanese sample, indicated that the degree of ego-surrender was directly affected by intrinsic motivation and the ego-enhancing nature of job and organization climate variables. Thus, the original proposition that ego-surrender may be facilitated by group-oriented supportive organizational environment assumed to exist in the Japanese company was not confirmed in this research. The data showed an opposite picture. The path analyses also revealed that ego-surrender, not job involvement, was directly affected by ego-enhancing organizational variables. This implies that the construct of ego-surrender may be more indicative of a unity between a strong ego and a job affected by an ego-enhancing organizational climate. Finally, several areas in the field of job involvement were suggested for future research.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Business
