Murray, 1938; Tett & Burnett, 2003). This suggests that certain categories
of occupational values will display more influence (direct and indirect)
on particular domains of work characteristics. Congruent with this notion, Table 1 depicts a theoretical framework that integrates the three
conceptual categories of occupational values with the three conceptual
domains of work characteristics and guides our subsequent hypothesis
development. Consistent with a meso-level approach, we restrict predictions to categorical-level linkages that characterize structural and individual correspondence. Because our focus is on the top-down effects of
occupations, our discussions below are organized by the three groupings
of occupational values