Locus of Control, Task Difficulty, and Their Interaction with Employees' Attitudes

Using 64 middle-level managers of a large company as subjects, this study investigated the interacting effects on employees' attitudes of locus of control, a personality variable, and task difficulty, a situational variable. The results of a 2 × 2 analysis of variance provided evidence to support the notion that locus of control interacted with task difficulty to affect employees' attitudes.