| dc.description.abstract | The attitude of work alienation or job involvement has been considered as very
central to work motivation (Katz and Kahn, 1966; Seeman, 1971) and yet very
few studies have been done to explore the relationship between job involvement
and patterns of perceived needs and their satisfactions on the job. Most of the
theories of human motivation (Alderfer, 1972 ; Herzberg, 1966 ; Maslow, 1954)
direct their efforts to identify the strength of various need categories and to suggest
that job behaviour is primarily determined by the perceived strength and
satisfaction of these needs in the employees. Very little attention has been paid by
these theories to job involvement as a moderator variable influencing employee’s
perception of importance, strength and satisfaction of his needs. The present
study is an attempt to explore the relationship between the attitude of job involvement
and patterns of perceived importance of the needs, and their satisfaction
on the job. | |
