Of the job satisfaction theories that have been put forth, it appean that three have
garnered the most research support: Locke's value-percept theory, the job characteristics
model, and the dispositional approach. It is interesting to note that one
of these theories is, essentially, a situational theory (job characteristics model),
another is a person theory (dispositional approach), and another is a penonsituation
interactional theory (value-percept model). Although this outcome may
lead one to assume that these theories are competing or incompatible explanations
of job satisfaction, this is not necessarily the case. Judge et al. (1997), in
seeking to explain how core self-evaluations would be related to job satisfaction,
proposed that intrinsic job characteristics would mediate this relationship.
Indeed, Judge et al. (1998) showed that individuals with positive core selfevaluations
perceived more intrinsic value in their work, and Judge, Bono, and
Locke (2000) showed that the link between core self-evaluations and intrinsic
job characteristics was not solely a perceptual process-