The Impact of Gender Similarity on Employee Satisfaction at Work: A Review and Re-Evaluation.

Peccei, Riccardo; Hyun-Jung Lee

We used data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to examine key unanswered questions about the impact of gender similarity on employee satisfaction at work. The study sample consisted of 11,848 men and 11,278 women from over 1700 workplaces across Britain. In line with gender-specific compositional arguments, the effects of gender similarity were found to be asymmetrical for men and women, with similarity tending to have a greater positive impact on men than on women. The effects involved were primarily linear in nature. Net of the potentially confounding influence of other factors, they were also found to be quite weak, weaker than has commonly been suggested in the literature.

JOB satisfaction research; QUALITY of work life; WORK environment research; EMPLOYEE attitudes; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology research; GENDER differences (Psychology); GENDER differences (Sociology); DIVERSITY in the workplace

Journal of Management Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 2005, Vol 42, Issue 8, p1571

0022-2380

Academic Journal

10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00557.x