CORRELATES OF EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES TOWARD FUNCTIONAL FLEXIBILITY

Public service employees (3044) completed a questionnaire seeking info rmation on their expectations regarding a proposal to increase their f unctional flexibility. It was proposed that beliefs concerning the unf avorability of outcomes of the intervention would be correlated with a range of biographical, affective, and job content variables. Multivar iate analyses revealed that the scope of an employees' existing job an d biographical variables (apart from age) were not generally predictiv e of attitudes to functional flexibility. Rather, unfavorable attitude s were weakly associated with low levels of extrinsic satisfaction, pe rceived reward equity, aspiration organizational commitment, and age. The implications of these findings for work and skills restructuring i nterventions and organizational change in general are discussed.