Respect for Authority and Job Satisfaction

This thesis investigates the relationship between an individual’s attitude towards authority and his/her job satisfaction and if this relationship varies between different cultural dimensions. Combining data on individual’s respect for authority and job satisfaction for people in many countries with countries’ scores on several cultural dimensions, it was found that the hypothesized positive relation between respect for authority and job satisfaction was only partially supported. Moreover, the expected interaction effects on job satisfaction between respect for authority and Power distance as well as Individualistic cultures (positive and negative respectively) were also only partially supported. For the Uncertainty avoidance culture, no interaction effect was found. Masculine culture appeared to have a positive interaction effect with respect for authority on job satisfaction