Empirical study of employee job satisfaction muhammad rizwan 1, waqas mehmood khan corresponding author2, hafiz muhammad aqeel tariq 3, abdul ghaffar 4, malik zubair anjum5, ehsan ullah bajwa 6 1 lecturer, department of management sciences the islamia university of. Difference between employee satisfaction and job satisfaction. The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between general employee satisfaction and specific characteristics of the job and the health agency and to make recommendations regarding what health agencies can do to support recruitment and retention. Use the link below to share a fulltext version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Pdf job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs.
As with motivation, it is affected by the environment. The job satisfaction survey, jss is a 36 item, nine facet scale to assess employee attitudes about the job and aspects of the job. List of books and articles about job satisfaction online. The concept of job satisfaction is multifaceted hence a number of theories are advanced to explain what it means and how the theories could be applied to enhance employee performance. Contribution of the study the following are the contributions that this research study provides. The effects of employee recognition, pay, and benefits on. Job satisfaction is written for professionals and students in business, management. Titrek, 2015 also relate to their job satisfaction. Understanding employee motivation the journal of extension. The emerald research register for this journal is available at the current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at. Effects of motivation and job satisfaction on employees. Rosso, phd, and colleagues noted that finding meaning in ones work has been shown to increase motivation, engagement, empowerment, career development, job satisfaction, individual performance and personal fulfillment, and to decrease absenteeism and stress research in organizational behavior, 2010. Investigating the role of selfefficacy, depression, and seniority by bradley, don e roberts, james a journal of small business management, vol.
In addition, the book summarizes the findings concerning how people feel about. Investigates the relationship between employee satisfaction, job tension, role clarity, role conflict and. Increasing job satisfaction of service personnel emerald insight. A pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of ones job 1 an affective reaction to ones job. Vrooms theory is based on the belief that employee effort will lead to performance and performance will lead to rewards vroom, 1964. A summated rating scale format is used, with six choices per item ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. How people feel about their jobs and how it affects their performance.
The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between general employee satisfaction and specific characteristics of the job and the health. Influence of job satisfaction on employees performance a. Discover librarianselected research resources on job satisfaction from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals. If your library doesnt have access, ask your librarian to start a trial. Impact of job satisfaction on the employees performance. We aimed to investigate the relationship between teachers job satisfaction and students academic performance in secondary schools. Empirical study of employee job satisfaction muhammad rizwan 1, waqas mehmood khan corresponding author2, hafiz muhammad aqeel tariq 3, abdul ghaffar 4, malik zubair anjum5, ehsan ullah bajwa 6 1 lecturer, department of management sciences the islamia university of bahawalpur pakistan. These long work hours may be indicative of a strong commitment by clergy to their congregations and community. The effects of employee recognition, pay, and benefits on job satisfaction.
This is a crosssectional study using data collected from the 2014 public health workforce interests and needs survey. Investigating the impact of job satisfactiondissatisfaction. Two subscales are used for extrinsic and intrinsic aspects of the job. List of books and articles about job satisfaction online research. American society for clinical pathologys job satisfaction.
Help organizations understand the importance of having the right people in the right position. In particular, herzbergs two factor theory is essentially a theory of job satisfaction and herzberg has applied the content theory of. The job satisfaction amongst the employees is determined by the presence of job. In full, asheritah offers solid, biblically sound instruction to help readers learn to lean on god instead of the scale. Life is too short to work at a job that brings daily dissatisfaction. This new book provides an overview of the vast literature on this topic. He has been a conference presenter on alcohol abuse prevention, customer service in higher education, student retention programs, academicadvisor job satisfaction, curriculum infusion, online advising, and firstyear programs. Among the topics explored are career development, relationships with management. Job satisfaction is closely linked to that individuals behaviour in the work place davis et al.
Advanced topics in organizational behavior book 3 thanks for sharing. According to cole 2009, motivation is essentially about what drives a person to work in. It can be captured by either a one dimensional concept of global job satisfaction or a multi faceted construct capturing different aspects of job satisfaction that can. Food, jesus, and the battle for satisfaction continues to teach me to fix my heart on christ instead, for he has already won. International journal on global business management and research influence of job satisfaction on employe es performance a general perspective kamala saranya research scholar, vels university, pallavaram, chennai, tamil nadu, india. The effects of employee recognition, pay, and benefits on job.
Relationship between teachers job satisfaction and. Job satisfaction is the most frequently studied variable in organizational behavior research. Motivator or intrinsic factors, such as achievement and recognition, produce job satisfaction. The impact of employee empowerment on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction happens when an employee feels he or she is having job stability, career growth and a comfortable work life balance. Abraham maslow1954 suggested that human needa from a fivelevel hierarchy ranging. Babic february relationship between working conditions and job satisfaction. Relationship between teachers job satisfaction and students. Jobs that are rich in positive behavioral elements such as autonomy, task identity, task significance and feedback contribute to. This implies that the employee is having satisfaction at job as the work meets the expectations of the individual. The majority of the studies conducted on job satisfaction are primarily built upon the needsbased. According to cole 2009, motivation is essentially about what drives a person to work in a particular way and with a given amount of effort. Salaries are up, and so is the level of optimism for the future among it pros in k12 education. Journal of organizational behavior wiley online library.
Hygiene or extrinsic factors, such as pay and job security, produce job dissatisfaction. The concept of job satisfaction, viewed through different lenses by various scholars, is defined differently. Lawler 1972 refers job satisfaction is the sum of job facet satisfaction across all facets of a job. The nature of job satisfaction is discussed along with techniques for assessing job satisfaction including existing scales and new instruments. A selection of these journal articles and book chapters can also be found here. However, the two most common definitions describe job satisfaction as. Each facet is assessed with four items, and a total score is computed from all items. The term motivation has been defined variously by different authorities in the study of psychology, management and allied disciplines. Job satisfaction is one of the important factors, which affect not only the efficiency of the laborers but also such job behavior as absenteeism, accidents, etc. Empirical study of employee job satisfaction iosr journal.
Further, the majority of job satisfaction studies have been conducted in across different occupations in one organization or across multiple organizations. Results revealed a strong, positive, and significant correlation between the tests. This particular section highlights several important books on job. This research examines 43 aspects of job satisfaction and 37 factors directly related to employee engagement. Cross country evidence 2 attention to employee recognition as a factor that affects job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is the favorableness or unfavorableness with which employees view their work. Greenberg and baron 2008, for instance, viewed job satisfaction as a feeling that can produce a positive or negative effect toward ones roles and responsibilities at work and added that it is important to understand the concept of job satisfaction as. Abstract this study takes a dynamic multilevel approach to examine how the relationship between an. You owe it to yourself to find satisfaction with your carrier choice. The results demostrated a positive correlation between job satisfaction and qol.
This study revealed that there is a positive direct effect of job satisfaction on employee engagement. Newman the link between job satisfaction and job performance is one of the most studied relationships in industrialorganizational psychology. Pdf effect of work motivation on job satisfaction rai. Most recent rss most cited rss the inclusive home for organizational research new editorinchief, christian resick, begins 2020 by discussing the vision and mission for job. A national survey of academicadvisor job satisfaction. The topic of job satisfaction at work is getting wider attention at this time. Our sample consisted of 322 secondaryschool teachers in faisalabad, pakistan, who completed the job satisfaction scale for. Job satisfaction, job stress, burnout, and general wellbeing were assessed, including prevalence of stress and burnout and their main sources and contributing factors, prevalence of worklife balance and wellbeing, and how satisfied pathologists are with their job. It was also found that job satisfaction and qol scores of nurses showed a significant difference according to their age, economic level, marital status, duration of working life, and position at work. It is generally perceived to be directly linked to productitivty as well as to personal wellbeing. Encyclopedia of quality of life and wellbeing research. Influence of job satisfaction on employees performance.
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