Page No 291-298
V.S.R.Vijayakumar and Urvika Saxena
Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur
Studies on Herzberg’ two factor theory of job satisfaction show contradictory findings
with respect to its dimensionality and external validity. Studies question the orthogonality
of motivators and hygiene factors, socio-cultural invariance of the theory and place of
monetary aspects in the two dimensional set up. The current study was carried out to
investigate these issues in Indian conditions. Questionnaire measure was used to collect
data from 144 middle level managers selected randomly from a list of participants of
management development program conducted by a business school over a period of
one year. The questionnaire consists of 14 attributes and each one of which was to
rated by the managers for its importance to overall job satisfaction of their current job
on a five point scale. Data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis with principle
component factoring and varimax rotational procedure. Three independent factors
namely, job content, organizational context and rewards and working conditions were
extracted and which was further validated by confirmatory factor analysis. The findings
suggest a three factor model including monitory attributes of job as a separate factor,
cross-loading of many attributes across job content and context factors and contextual
dependence of the model. The importance of socio-cultural milieu and monitory aspects
in managing employee motivation is discussed.
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