TOWARD AN ORGANIZATIONAL-BEHAVIOR OF CONTRACT LABORERS - THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL INVOLVEMENT AND EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE COWORKERS

This study investigated differences in the psychological involvement a nd task assignments of labor-contractor and employee engineers and the effects of the contractors on the attitudes of their employee coworke rs. Findings partly supported the hypothesis that supervisors shift in terdependent tasks to employees when contractors are present in their work groups. However, employees were not found to have greater quasi-m oral involvement than contractors. In addition, the presence of contra ctor co-workers was associated with employee reports of lower organiza tional trustworthiness, as expected.