Title :
Job characteristics, work commitments, and job satisfaction of the Thai workers in Taiwan´s construction industry: Taiwan - using type A and B personalities as moderators
Author :
PeiWen Liao ; FurHsing Wen ; Chin-Cheh Yu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Technol. & Human Resource Dev., Nat. Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
This paper describes the variables of job characteristics, work commitments and job satisfaction. We studied 400 Thai employees in Taiwan. AB people are moderators, and that Type A people are easily irritated, highly competitive, and are always in a hurry. Job characteristics do not affect job satisfaction, but work commitments affect job satisfaction.
Keywords :
construction industry; employee welfare; employment; personnel; Taiwan construction industry; Thai employee; Thai worker; job characteristics; job satisfaction; type A personality; type B personality; work commitment; Analytical models; Data models; Equations; Mathematical model; Optical wavelength conversion; Psychology; Testing; A/B personality; Job Characteristics; Job Satisfaction; Work commitments; moderating;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Macao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8501-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-3611
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674271
