Perceived need satisfactions of workers in isolated environments ...

• Main Author: Cram, John Murray
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0104237; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0104237

A review of the literature on work environments suggests that workers in specific settings will have specific and unique job satisfactions. Porter and Lawler, however, suggest that these unique environmental perceptions may all be described in terms of their theoretical model linking job attitudes and performance. The present study examines the job satisfactions, personal histories and performance ratings of workers in the specific environment of isolated work settings in the Canadian Arctic, and tests a number of hypotheses based on the Porter-Lawler model. Job satisfactions are measured by an eighteen item adaptation of the Porter managerial questionnaire. Numerical measures are obtained of the fulfillment, dissatisfaction and importance perceived to exist for specific job factors related to the Physiological, Security, Social, Esteem, Autonomy and Self-Actualization needs described by Maslow. Personal history information is contained in a coded data sheet similar to that used in the Antarctic studies of ...