Job Satisfaction
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION,
JOB SATISFACTION AND CORPORATE CULTURE by WANDA ROOS submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE in the subject
PSYCHOLOGY
at the
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA
SUPERVISOR: MS R VAN EEDEN
JUNE 2005
Student number: 3381-990-4
I declare that
The relationship between employee motivation, job satisfaction and corporate culture is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references.
_________________ _________
Mrs W Roos June 2005
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to thank:
- my supervisor, Mrs R Van Eeden, for her competent guidance;
- the host organisation for the participation of their staff in the study;
- SHL for the processing of the data and assisting with its interpretation;
- RAU Statcon for the statistical analysis of the data;
- my Mother for editing the research report in her professional capacity;
- my parents, brother and sister for their wonderful encouragement and support; but most of all, my gratitude is to God, for carrying me through one of the most difficult undertakings of my life.
SUMMARY
The aim of the study was two-fold: Firstly, the relationships of job satisfaction with the dimensions of employee motivation (energy and dynamism, synergy, intrinsic and extrinsic motives) and the domains of corporate culture (performance, human resources, decision-making and relationships) was investigated. Secondly, the relationships of employee motivation, job satisfaction and corporate culture with a number of demographic variables (age, gender, tenure, education level and seniority) were explored. The findings indicated a statistically significant three-way relationship between employee motivation, job satisfaction and corporate culture, within which several aspects of these constructs contributed more powerfully towards the relationship than others. The age, gender, tenure,
JOB SATISFACTION AND CORPORATE CULTURE by WANDA ROOS submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE in the subject
PSYCHOLOGY
at the
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA
SUPERVISOR: MS R VAN EEDEN
JUNE 2005
Student number: 3381-990-4
I declare that
The relationship between employee motivation, job satisfaction and corporate culture is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references.
_________________ _________
Mrs W Roos June 2005
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to thank:
- my supervisor, Mrs R Van Eeden, for her competent guidance;
- the host organisation for the participation of their staff in the study;
- SHL for the processing of the data and assisting with its interpretation;
- RAU Statcon for the statistical analysis of the data;
- my Mother for editing the research report in her professional capacity;
- my parents, brother and sister for their wonderful encouragement and support; but most of all, my gratitude is to God, for carrying me through one of the most difficult undertakings of my life.
SUMMARY
The aim of the study was two-fold: Firstly, the relationships of job satisfaction with the dimensions of employee motivation (energy and dynamism, synergy, intrinsic and extrinsic motives) and the domains of corporate culture (performance, human resources, decision-making and relationships) was investigated. Secondly, the relationships of employee motivation, job satisfaction and corporate culture with a number of demographic variables (age, gender, tenure, education level and seniority) were explored. The findings indicated a statistically significant three-way relationship between employee motivation, job satisfaction and corporate culture, within which several aspects of these constructs contributed more powerfully towards the relationship than others. The age, gender, tenure,
References: 179 job- and organisation-related variables (Gouws, 1995; Rothmann & Coetzer, 2002)