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| Published: March 25, 2016
Association between Locus of Control and Job Satisfaction in Employees: A Critical Review
Assistant Professor, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan’s Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management (Bulmim), New Delhi Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi Google Scholar More about the auther
PhD Scholar, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.178/20160302
DOI: 10.25215/0302.178
ABSTRACT
Employee job satisfaction in the workplace is one of the important objectives of human resource managers and practitioners for better performance and productivity. Job satisfaction is a psychological state of human mind and it is subjective to individual experience and expectation, personality often plays an influential role. The term locus of control can be considered, a combination of one’s values, beliefs, past experiences, and cultural influence one’s life and behaviour. The internal-external locus of control constructs person’s internal expectancies for control of reinforcement. Further, it is believed that a person’s own behaviour determine the reinforcement they receive. The present research aims to investigate on the relationship between locus of control and job satisfaction and how does it influence, according to gender, culture, country, various sectors etc. The study will be based on different literature review in the area of concern. It will help us to develop a theoretical framework and a direction to solve for managerial problems of job satisfaction and performance of the employees. Dailey’s (1980) found that persons with an internal locus of control were more satisfied, motivated and had a high level of participation within their jobs. Some of the researches (Kircady et al., 2002; Noor, 2002; Martin et al., 2005; and Chen and Silverthorne, 2008) revealed that, there is a relationship between job satisfaction and locus of control. The present paper will be fulfilled with the gap of various dimensions such as how it is different according to gender, country, culture, and also in different sectors.
Keywords
Internal locus of control; External Locus of control, Job satisfaction; employee performances
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I K Gangai, G Mahakud, V Sharma
Received: February 04, 2016; Revision Received: February 26, 2016; Accepted: March 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.178/20160302
10.25215/0302.178
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 2, January-March, 2016