Disentangling the relationship between high-involvement-worksystems and job satisfactio

Аннотация

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how high-involvement work systems (HIWS) affect job satisfaction, and tries to disentangle the mechanisms through which the effect occurs. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use data for a representative sample of 10,112 Spanish employees. In order to test the mediation mechanism implied by the hypotheses, the authors follow the procedure outlined in Baron and Kenny (1986). Given the nature of the dependent variables, ordered probit models were estimated to study the effect of HIWS on the mediating variables ( job interest, effort and wages), and regression models were estimated to analyze the effect of HIWS on the final attitudinal variable ( job satisfaction)