Employee Affective Responses to Work Unit Structure and Job Design: A Test of an Intervening Variable

The predictive power of two models (work unit structure and job design) in association with employee job satisfaction were compared. Job design was also tested as an intervening variable in the work unit structure-employee job satisfaction relationship. The results indicate the work unit structure did not have a significant association with employee job satisfaction. Instead, job design emerged as an intervening variable in the work unit structure-employee job satisfaction relationship.