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Oldham's finding (1976) that significant relationships existed between job characteristics and internal motivation for employees who experienced high satisfaction with their supervisors and co-workers led to the hypothesis of the present study that the significant relationships between the two variables would be found only when interpersonally satisfied employees performed interdependent jobs which need cooperation. Contrary to the hypothesis, however, data collected from 1391 nurses employed in eight hospitals showed that the nurses with higher interdependent jobs were motivated when they were dissatisfied with their co-workers. These results would seem to indicate that interpersonal satisfaction and satisfaction with intrinsically motivated jobs complement each other, so that when employees are interpersonally dissatisfied they seek job satisfaction, and vice versa.
