Demographic Profiling of the Locus of Control of Employees

Autor:	Upasna A. Agarwal, Usha Chavali, Keith C. D'Souza
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Locus of control Industrial relations Profiling (information science) Business and International Management Psychology Demography
Zdroj:	Management and Labour Studies. 38:335-356
ISSN:	2321-0710 0258-042X
DOI:	10.1177/0258042x13513133
Popis:	This study examines variations in employees’ locus of control (LOC) across the demographic variables of gender, educational background and respondents’ age. The study is based on data collected from 565 employees, using an adapted version of the Rotter Internal–External Locus of Control Scale. Based on a survey of literature, three hypotheses were formulated relating the demographic variables of gender, educational background and age with LOC. The results of this study yielded evidence of variations based on all the three demographic parameters. T-tests and analyses of variance suggest that there is no uniform LOC across different groups of employees. Men, ‘Gen X’ and people with higher educational levels (postgraduates) demonstrate higher internal LOC when compared with counterpart demographic groups. Implications of the findings for organization and management practice are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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