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Correlates of Employee Attitudes Toward Functional Flexibility

Department of Management, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009.

Peter Sevastos

Wally Mueller

School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6001.

Sharon Parker

MRC/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield SlO 2TN, United Kingdom.

Public service employees (3044) completed a questionnaire seeking information on their expectations regarding a proposal to increase their functional flexibility. It was proposed that beliefs concerning the unfavorability of outcomes of the intervention would be correlated with a range of biographical, affective, and job content variables. Multivariate analyses revealed that the scope of an employees' existing job and biographical variables (apart from age) were not generally predictive of attitudes to functional flexibility. Rather, unfavorable attitudes were weakly associated with low levels of extrinsic satisfaction, perceived reward equity, aspiration organizational commitment, and age. The implications of these findings for work and skills restructuring interventions and organizational change in general are discussed.

Key Words: functional flexibility • job design • work attitudes

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