EXAMINATION OF SUPERVISORY SATISFACTION IN TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL GENDER-BASED REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

Supervisory Satisfaction relates to satisfaction with supervision rath er than other conditions or agents in the work place. The supervisor-s ubordinate relationship is becoming increasingly important given the s hift from managing work to managing people. Six variables were theoriz ed as influencing satisfaction. Developing a parsimonious model to pre dict the variance in supervisor satisfaction, this empirical study exa mined 202 traditional supervisory relationships (subordinate reporting to a male supervisor) and 48 nontraditional supervisory relationships (subordinates reporting to a female supervisor). The sample was predo minantly whites. Four of the five variables theorized, predicted a hig h level of variance in supervisory satisfaction in both traditional an d nontraditional relationships. However the predictors were not differ ent for the two groups.