Relationship between Balance of Job Demands-control and Shared Mission/Vision for Blue-collar Employees

Abstract

Sharing organization mission and vision by employees and act in that way gain much more importance in today's competitive environment. Especially, considering production sector, developing their effort to contribute to organization's mission and vision for blue-collar employees is desired situation by managers. Existence of perception concerning organization for these employees is closely related to job operated by them in that company. Balance between job demands and control or resources provided to counterbalance the demands can influence the attitudes to organization and job for employees working in labor-intensive job. Considering Job Demand-Control Model propositions developed by Karasek (1979), how the balance between job demands and provided control for blue-collar employees affect to share organization's mission and vision is investigated in this research. 345- participant sampling is selected from blue-collar employees working in 8 different production companies. Proposed relationships are tested via structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression analysis.