I believe there are 2 main seminal works in this dissertation by Andrews (2003) which are
Comparison of published measures of job satisfaction on a taxonomy of job rewards by Pritchard and Shaw (1978), Role of work values in leader member exchange. Paper presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology by Steiner & Dobbins (1987).
The main idea of this study started by reviewing what Pritchard and Shaw done in the past. Pritchard and Shaw (1978), did their study in 1975 with the US Air Force relating to job satisfaction and their project goals were to develop list of rewards, develop list