Tlp. Tang et Pr. Gilbert, ORGANIZATION-BASED SELF-ESTEEM AMONG MENTAL-HEALTH WORKERS - A REPLICATION AND EXTENSION, Public personnel management, 23(1), 1994, pp. 127-134
One hundred fifty five employees from the Department of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation in the State of Tennessee completed a survey wh
ich measured the Organization-Based Self-Esteem (OBSE, Pierce, Gardner
, Cummings, & Dunham, 1989), as well as their demographic, personality
, and organizational variables. The results of a step-wise multiple re
gression showed that OBSE was related to subjects' global self-esteem,
n Ach, organizational citizenship, organizational commitment, motivat
ing potential score (MPS), and education. Several results were replica
ted and new findings were discussed. It appears that OBSE is related t
o many variables that are intrinsic to the employees' subjective feeli
ngs in an organization.