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This paper reports an examination of the relationship between satisfaction with one's supervisor and organizational commitment type based on data collected from nonmanagerial employees. The results show that moral and alienative forms of commitment were related to employees' satisfaction with their supervisors and that calculative commitment was not related. Supervisor behaviors related to moral commitment include consistency of behavior toward subordinates, showing concern for career progress, backing up employees with other managers, and employees' satisfaction with the supervisor's technical competence. Supervisor behaviors related to alienative commitment include the way one's supervisor treats an individual when he or she makes a mistake, the way the supervisor shows concern for one's career progress, and the way one's job responsibilities are defined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article compares college student's perceptions of occupational sex typing with researcher M.E. Shinar's study in 1975. Shinar examined the sex stereotypes of occupations as they existed among college students. A sex typed occupation has been defined as one identified with a particular sex. In other words, there is a normative expectation concerning the appropriate sex of the job holder. Shinar's purpose was to provide the first normative data regarding the perceptions of occupations as being masculine, feminine, or gender neutral. For example, Shinar found that college students rated occupations such as miner, mayor, construction worker, university president, and district attorney as being masculine. Conversely, receptionist, bank teller, nurse, cashier, and dental hygienist were typed as being feminine. One determinant of occupational sex typing may be the distribution of females in each job category rather than the job content itself. Perhaps as more women enter occupations traditionally dominated by men, occupational sex typing will be reduced. Researcher M.E. Heilman suggested that a woman's perception of the probability of personal success in an occupation was dependent on the sexual composition of that occupation.