Technology as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Perceived Work Environment and Subunit Effectiveness
研究了技术复杂性如何调节感知工作环境与子单位有效性之间的关系，发现加入技术变量能更好地解释子单位有效性差异，且有效工作环境因技术类型而异。
The present study examined the role of technological complexity as a moderator in the relationship between perceived work environment and subunit effectiveness. Empirically derived subunit effectiveness scores, subunit technology scores, and aggregated subunit employee perceptions of their work environment were used to test the research hypothesis. Moderated regression analysis suggested that technology does operate as a moderating variable. The addition of technology increases the explanation in the variance of subunit effectiveness over the use of work environment factors alone as predictors. Furthermore, the analysis showed that perceived work environments associated with effectiveness vary between technological groupings of subunits. Since such variation in effective work environments was found, it suggests that organization development programs should be multifaceted and based on substantial research in the organization to determine appropriate work environments in the various subunits.