An Examination of the Correlates of Job Involvement

Rabinowitz and Hall (1977) suggested that the relationships between job involvement and personal situational characteristics and work outcomes are approximately equal in size. This study explored the portions of common variance shared with job involvement by combinations of personal and situational characteristics and outcome variables. Correlation and regression generally supported Rabinowitz and Hall's profile of the job-involved employee. Situational characteristics and outcome variables are each found to display comparable amounts of common variance with job involvement and considerably more than do personal characteristics.