Human Needs and Job Satisfaction: A Multidimensional Approach
研究加拿大消费贷款公司法语和英语管理者的人类需求与工作满意度关系，发现需求独立于社会期望性，解释了满意度的大部分变异，并质疑了文献中关于需求的规范性取向。
Francophone (n = 90) and Anglophone (n = 106) managers for a national consumer lending company in Canada responded to measures of human needs (Personality Research Form) and Job Satisfaction (Job Descriptive Index). Needs are transformed to remove multicollinearity and a multivariate model developed to account for variation in job satisfaction. A considerable amount of the variance in job satisfaction is accounted for by human needs that are highly independent of social desirability responding. There are differences in the explanatory variables of the two samples. Implications regarding job redesign are discussed. In particular, the normative orientation in the literature regarding appropriate needs for organizational research is questioned, and the importance of considering the multidimensional nature of need structure is stressed.