The Impact of Perceived Relationship with Supervisors on Work Well-being: Obedience-to-authority Orientation and Workplace Friendship as Moderators
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Lin, Lin
Abstract
Concerning about the issue of occupational health psychology, the present study aims to explore the impact of subordinates’ perceived relationship with supervisors on their work well-being, and to understand the relations among supervisor satisfaction, supervisor harmony, perceived supervisor pressure, job satisfaction and subjective well-being (SWB). In addition, “obedience-to-authority orientation” and “workplace friendship” are selected as internal and external factors in order to examine their moderating effects. Using structured questionnaires, a sample of 310 full-time employees of public/private organizations in Taiwan was surveyed.esults showed that the relationship between supervisor and subordinate was positively related to workers’ job satisfaction and SWB. However, the moderating effects of “obedience-to-authority orientation” and “workplace friendship” were largely not significant, with an exception that co-worker satisfaction moderates the relationship between perceived supervisor pressure and job satisfaction. Moreover, we found that workplace friendship actually had a dominant main effect rather than a moderating effect on work well-being, which made it more valuable for practical application. In conclusion, this research has underlined the importance of relationships in workplace which are pivotal to work well-being of employees, and deserve more attention in management practices.
Subjects
supervisor-subordinate relationship
job satisfaction
subjective well-being (SWB)
obedience-to-authority orientation
workplace friendship
Type
thesis
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