For my thesis I am performing a case study of an organization about the satisfaction, commitment and values of employees. I have phrased one of my hypotheses as follows:
"The effect of job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behavior is stronger for employees who value achievement, self-direction, stimulation, security and benevolence."
This is based on the fact that these are the values represented by the case study organization.
Is this acceptable, or should I keep the hypothesis general and only address the relation to the organization's values in the discussion?
I think it is better to separate your variables and measure the effects of each variable on the other variables individually. for example the effect of job satisfaction on OCB. after measuring each relationship between two variables individually then you can say that the effect of job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behavior is stronger for employees who value achievement, self-direction, stimulation, security and benevolence.
I understand that you have more than two variables and you want to study the relationships among them. In this case, structural equation modeling is the technique to be used for multivariate statistical analysis. Structural Equation Modeling (AMOS or any other software) is a family of multivariate statistical models that allow the analyst to estimate the effect and relationships between multiple variables.
It can be either, depending on the situation. If your conceptial framework contains variables that have not been tested, the hypotheses would most likely be general.
However, if your cinceptual framework has variables that have been replicated in many findings, then most likely your hypotheses would be specific.
Dear Nienke G. , according to my limited knowledge, a hypothesis cannot be in a general statement form like the one u have written, because a hypothesis is a statement of a theory based specific relationship between two (direct) or More (indirect or mediating and moderating) variables of the study. Such as, your JS is (directly) positively related with OCB. However, if you want to statistically test the strength of this relationship on different levels of the values you mentioned (i.e., high or low values of achievement, self-direction, stimulation, security, and benevolence), you will need to test the moderating effects of all these variables on your JS to OCB relationship.
"The effect of job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behavior is stronger for employees who value achievement, self-direction, stimulation, security and benevolence."
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