Job Status and Employees' Responses: Effects of Demographic Characteristics

Abstract

Differences in attitudinal responses of part-time and full-time employees have been described in prior investigations which, however, generally did not control statistically for demographic variables. Some researchers contend that the results may be spurious. This paper reports differences between 74 part-time and 83 full-time retail department store employees' role perceptions, general job satisfaction, internal work motivation, organizational commitment, task perceptions, and self-rated performance. Differences, assessed while controlling for age, sex, job tenure, and education, suggest that job status is related to employees' variety, autonomy, task-identity, and self-rated performance when controls for demographic variables are appropriate.