Abstract
The Minnesota Job Description Questionnaire was completed by 338 supervisors of nine jobs and 381 of their supervisees. The resulting Occupational Reinforcer Patterns (ORPs) were compared by correlational analysis and analysis of variance. ORPs from both groups had high split-group reliabilities. Strong support was obtained for the convergent and divergent validity of the civil engineer, elementary teacher, and radiologic technologist ORPs. Moderate support was demonstrated for the validity of the social caseworker, bank teller, automobile salesman, and salesman-driver ORPs, while the waiter-waitress and truck driver ORPs were found to be of questionable validity. The data suggest that supervisors and supervisees generally perceive reinforcer characteristics similarly, although the two groups of raters tended to disagree on the extrinsic reinforcers and on the reinforcer characteristics of lower level occupations.
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