A Test of a Revision of the Job Characteristics Model

This field study tested the GN‐GO model of job growth opportunity, a modification of the job characteristics model, with dependent variables and a type of growth opportunity not hitherto investigated. As predicted by the model, employees with high growth need strength responded positively to a growth opportunity while those with low growth need strength did not. The data gave better support to the GN‐GO model than to the job characteristics …