The Effects of Discrimination on Job Satisfaction in the Military: Comparing Evidence from the Armed Forces Equal Opportunity Survey and the Military Equal Opportunity Climate Survey

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Military ◽  
Equal Opportunity Climate

A multilevel model of the effects of equal opportunity climate on job satisfaction in the military.

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M. Walsh ◽  
Russell A. Matthews ◽  
Michael D. Tuller ◽  
Kizzy M. Parks ◽  
Daniel P. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
The Military ◽  
Equal Opportunity Climate

Appreciation at Work in the Swiss Armed Forces

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Désirée Stocker ◽  
Nicola Jacobshagen ◽  
Norbert K. Semmer ◽  
Hubert Annen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Interactional Justice ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Noncommissioned Officers ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

This study explores the impact of appreciation at work among military professionals. Based on the concept of “Stress-as-Offense-to-Self” ( Semmer, Jacobshagen, Meier, & Elfering, 2007 ), appreciation is a possible resource due to boosts to self-esteem. We measured appreciation at work with a scale differentiating several forms and sources of appreciation. Data were gathered by an online survey of 228 male career officers and career noncommissioned officers of the Swiss Armed Forces. Appreciation at work correlated positively with job satisfaction and negatively with feelings of resentment. Moreover, appreciation at work explained incremental variance over and above job control, social support, and interactional justice. These results underline its distinction from other resource variables. Legal employment conditions of the military professionals include working hours in accordance with ongoing requirements without upper limits established. Moderator analysis showed that appreciation buffered the effect of long working hours on job satisfaction. Furthermore, appreciation mediated the effect of illegitimate tasks on job satisfaction as well as on feelings of resentment. Overall, these findings imply that it is worth building an organisational culture based on appreciation at work. Implications for research and military training are discussed.

War and Its Surrogates: Male Combat Sports and Women's Roles

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Margaret Loftus Ranald
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Court Order ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
United States Armed Forces ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Service Academies ◽  
Military Institute ◽  
The Military

War and the military life have traditionally been perceived in most cultures as a sacrosanct ex-periental world devoted to masculine maturation and bonding. By definition both these traditionally male organizations have until now excluded women, treating them as objects to be despised (if not feared), and also the target of active opposition. Note, for instance, the gleeful celebrations among cadets when Shannon L. Faulkner, the first woman admitted (after court order) to The Citadel, a single-sex military college in Charleston, SC, decided after one week in August 1995 that she could not survive the harassment, hi refusing to admit her the institution had claimed that her presence ‘would undermine a proud and legitimate tradition dedicated to molding the minds, bodies and spirits of young men’. The counter argument was that she was being denied equal opportunity to take part in ‘a unique academic environment that requires on-campus residence and that is being built around a system of hardship, competition and bonding, […and] also a lifetime of countless, less tangible benefits’. Such was also the basis of the US Supreme Court's majority opinion written by Ruth Bader Ginsberg (1996) mandating the admission of women to the Virginia Military Institute. Though now federal government supported service academies admit women, nostalgia still exists in certain quarters for the days when the comment, ‘If the army had wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one’ summed up the distinctly peripheral position held by wives, who were, and are still, classified as ‘dependants’. But now women are in the United States Armed Forces, in command positions and certain combat units, as well as in the medical corps. The transition is difficult.

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