Locus of Control and Job Involvement

This paper reviews and extends the literature on entrepreneurs' ethical behavior. Building heavily on previous ethical decision making models, we argue that the nature of both the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurship context warrant additional theorizing within the ethics literature. We propose that entrepreneurs face unique and conflicting internal and external drivers of ethical behavior. While entrepreneurs' higher propensity for intuitive decision making and higher internal locus of control may lead to relatively higher ethical conduct, a need for achievement may produce the opposite result. Likewise, in the course of engaging in entrepreneurial activities, the entrepreneurs' higher accountability and concern for reputation may lead to relatively higher ethical conduct, while the increased uncertainty may countervail these pressures. us, the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurship context come together to create a unique and complex system of tensions that may or may not lead to ethical conduct. We discuss the implications of these tensions and future directions for research.

The Locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can
control events that affect them. Understanding of the concept was developed by Julian B.
Rotter in 1954, and has since become an aspect of personality studies. A person’s ‘’locus’’
[Latin for ‘ place’ or ‘location’ ] is conceptualized as either internal [the person believes
they can control their life ]or external [meaning they believe that their decisions and life are
controlled by environmental factors which they cannot influence ].

With the decline of manufacturing in the United States, there is a need for increased employee innovation. This survey research examined the role of locus of control, leadership style, and innovative work behavior in the manufacturing industry using variance-based structural equation modeling. We tested the moderating roles of both internal and external locus of control on the leadership style and innovative work behavior and found positive significant relationships for transformational and transactional leadership styles and innovative work behavior.

The study examined the influence of work locus of control on perceived stress of librarians in public universities in South Western Nigeria. The research design was the ex-post facto. The study used both primary and secondary data sources. A simple random sampling method was used to select seven public universities which yielded 92 respondents. Total enumeration technique was used in the administration of questionnaires. Sixty-three respondents completed and returned their questionnaires which were used for analysis. Work locus of control and perceived stress inventories were used to obtain data. Data were analysed using percentages, mean, standard deviation and ttest for independent samples. Results indicated a significant difference between perceived stress of librarians who have external locus of control and librarians who have internal work locus of control. It was shown that librarians who have external work locus of control (externals) perceived a higher level of stress than l...

What individual characteristics predict inequality acceptance? Previous literature has focused on economic and sociological determinants of accepting inequalities. Here, we present experimental evidence of one individual correlate of inequality acceptance: the personality trait known as locus of control. In our study, inequality is induced experimentally through the exogenous assignment to one of two experimental treatments. In one treatment, initial inequalities depend on individual performance in a previous real-effort task, that is, they are earned through effort, while in the other they are randomly determined. We report that people who show an internal locus of control (the belief that life’s outcomes are under one’s control) are significantly more likely to accept both arbitrary and effort-based inequalities, although they accept the latter more often.

This study investigated locus of control and marital status as predictor of counsellors' job satisfaction in Delta and Edo States. The study was guided by nine research questions and nine hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research design was predictive correlational survey. The population of the study is 359 practising guidance counsellors in all public secondary schools in Edo and Delta states. Delta state has 217 counsellors and Edo state 142 counsellors. The sample of the study was being made up of all practising counsellors in public secondary schools in Secondary schools in Edo and Delta States. Since the population of 359 is small and manageable, the entire population was studied. Two instruments were used to collect data for this study. These are Locus of Control (LOC) and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JSQ). The research adopted the three instruments for the study. The researcher and other research assistances administered the instruments through direct delivery method. The researcher with the help of 11 well-trained research assistants, distributed the questionnaire to the respondents and collected completed copies from them. Out of the 359 copies of the questionnaires distributed only 343 (95.5 %) copies were retrieved from the respondents. For data analyses, research question 1-9 was answered using a simple regression analysis. The null hypothesis were tested using simple and multiple analyses. Findings from the study revealed that, self-efficacy is a significant predictor of job satisfaction of secondary school counsellors in Delta and Edo States. It was recommended that since marital status and locus of control are jointly predictors of job satisfaction among secondary school counsellors. Hence, earnest efforts should be made by governments and counselling psychologists to enhance locus of control of counsellors for the purpose of transforming education in Nigeria. Counsellors with internal locus of control are more likely to create and promote conditions and interpersonal networks that nourish and sustain work satisfaction.

This work introduces the “Worry Inventory for Managers” (WIM), a 24-item measure of job-related worries in managers. A sample of 138 managers responded to the WIM and to measures of pathological worry, job involvement, and self-reliance. Factor analysis of the WIM revealed two facets of job-related worry, namely worry about (a) organizational processes and about (b) work overload. Results indicate that job-related worry shows differential correlations from pathological worry with the three factors of self-reliance (counterdependence, overdependence, and interdependence).

Since a long time entrepreneurship is a wide field of discussion for researchers. As a field of academic investigation entrepreneurship has attracted the researchers from different domains including economics, management, sociology, psychology etc. From the social point of view entrepreneurship is regarded as a act of some specific communities, castes and ethnic groups, and social institutions, social norms, culture, and social values affect the level of entrepreneurship, whereas, psychologists focus on personality traits and their affect on entrepreneurship. These personality traits are; need for achievement, need for power, locus of control, risk taking ability, and opportunity recognition.

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ABSTRACT
JOB-RELATED STRESSORS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
WITHIN POLICE FAMILIES
By
Quentin Zavala
August 2005
This thesis investigates the role of occupational stress as a source of domestic violence in police families using the theoretical constructs of General Strain Theory.  General Strain Theory is compatible with the stress-diathesis model but improves upon it by theoretically explaining police deviance.  It looks at how stress is appraised by an officer’s locus of control orientation, affecting the formation of job-related strains, the negative psychological consequences of strain and risk factors that directly affect the incidence of domestic violence. 
This research used a secondary data set compiled from a study that examined police stress, coping behaviors, and psychological effects of domestic violence among a large sample of police officers.  The findings from this study replicated earlier research, but found that an officer’s locus of control plays a pivotal role in stress appraisals, the negative affects, and levels of domestic violence.  The results suggest that law enforcement organizations need to increase the scope of attention towards the physical and psychological health of officers to reduce domestic violence in the homes of police officers.

This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Duration data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study reveal that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC. We find that this effect is particularly pronounced in jobs in which the penalties in terms of lower wage growth are highest.We thus argue that the effect of LOCon return ismainly related to differential appreciation of the career costs of longer maternity leave.