ORGANIZATION-BASED SELF-ESTEEM AMONG MENTAL-HEALTH WORKERS - A REPLICATION AND EXTENSION

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.