Individual Differences and the Job Quality - Worker Response Relationship: Review, Integration, and Comments

Based on the proposition that increasing job scope is appropriate only for certain types of individuals, investigators have attempted to identify individual characteristics that moderate the relationship between job characteristics and employee responses. Three streams of research are examined. Each case found moderating effects to be modest in magnitude. A lack of consistency occurred in spite of the large number of studies and well developed theoretical models. Future research efforts in this area would not be productive.