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Examination of supervisory satisfaction in traditional and nontraditional gender-based reporting relationships

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Supervisory Satisfaction relates to satisfaction with supervision rather than other conditions or agents in the work place. The supervisor-subordinate relationship is becoming increasingly important given the shift from managing work to managing people. Six variables were theorized as influencing satisfaction. Developing a parsimonious model to predict the variance in supervisor satisfaction, this empirical study examined 202 traditional supervisory relationships (subordinate reporting to a male supervisor) and 48 nontraditional supervisory relationships (subordinates reporting to a female supervisor). The sample was predominantly whites. Four of the five variables theorized, predicted a high level of variance in supervisory satisfaction in both traditional and nontraditional relationships. However the predictors were not different for the two groups.

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  1. Department of Management & Marketing, Murray State University, 42071-0009, Murray, Kentucky, USA

    Sandy Jeanquart-Barone

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Jeanquart-Barone, S. Examination of supervisory satisfaction in traditional and nontraditional gender-based reporting relationships. Sex Roles 34, 717–728 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01551504

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