THE OCCUPATIONAL REFERENCE GROUP-A NEGLECTED CONCEPT IN EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE STUDIES.

The article presents a study which investigates occupational differences among attitudinal areas in the employment condition and to consider effects of such differences for both application and research. The study uses response to the Triple Audit Employee Attitude questionnaire that was gathered from 3207 nonsupervisor employees in 26 companies. Chi-square tests was also used for combinations of occupational groups. Results show that a number of large differences are located across occupational groups and it suggests it might be needed to specify the particular attitudinal area when asking occupation.