EMPIRICALLY DERIVED JOB CHARACTERISTICS MEASURES AND THE MOTIVATING POTENTIAL SCORE

The relationship of job satisfaction to empirically derived measures o f job perceptions originally investigated by Zaccaro and Stone (1988) and to measures of the job from the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS: Hackma n & Oldham, 1975) was investigated. The multiplicative nature of the J DS scales forming the Motivating Potential Score (MPS) was tested. The extent to which job satisfaction mediated the relationship between jo b perceptions and intent to leave was explored using a path analysis. The empirically derived measures of Zacarro and Stone were found to ac count for a significant increment in variance in the case of satisfact ion with work itself, but not with overall satisfaction or satisfactio n with other job facets. No evidence for the multiplicative formulatio n of the MPS was found. Both perception of job danger and a linear com posite motivating potential scale exhibited direct effects on intent t o leave not mediated by job satisfaction.