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Organizational tenure, work environment perceptions, and employee mental health
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Organizational tenure, work environment perceptions, and employee mental health

James F Gavin and Jeffrey H Greenhaus
Journal of vocational behavior, v 8(2), pp 247-258
01 Jan 1976

Abstract

The mediating effect of organizational “time investments” on the relationship between work environment perceptions and mental health was explored in two work settings. Participants were 257 managerial-level employees in a line organization and 214 in a staff setting. Results support the hypothesis of greater “responsivity” to perceived organizational stimuli for longer tenured employees, but only in the line setting. The mixed findings in the staff organization suggest that other characteristics of the environment (e.g., systems function) and of its members (e.g., organizational versus occupational identification) need to be considered. Implications for the social responsibilities of organizations to their members are offered in conclusion.

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