Attempting to understand the nature of job satisfaction and its effects on work performance is not easy. For at least 50 years industrial/organizational psychologists have been wrestling with the question of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. Researchers have put a considerable amount of effort into attempts to demonstrate that the two are positively related in a particular fashion: a happy worker is a good worker. Although this sounds like a very appealing idea‚ the results
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Job Security in the Economy Victor Valentine Comm /215 September 10‚ 2012 Frank Nainoa Job Security in the Economy Job Security in the Economy are not secure. Job security today has changed and has come a long way. Job security means the probability that an individual will keep his or her job; a job with a high level of job security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of becoming unemployed. Job security is about an individuals perception of themself‚ the situation
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Objective of the report Understand job stress and its nature‚ Understand theoretical viewpoints of stress‚ Discuss how it has affected employees in United States and Japan. 1.Introduction Modern businesses are complex and highly competitive consequently employees‚ management of the organization as well as organization itself under contentious strain to accomplish higher targets (Rothmann et al‚ 2005). In recent time’s organizations around the world restructuring‚ outsourcing and downsizing
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focusing on the environmental sustainability and reducing the climatic changes effect. According to report published by the Political Economy Research Institute of Massachusetts University; green economy is meant to create labor‚ which is aimed to maintain a clean and safe environment and the jobs associated with this endeavor are referred to as green jobs. There exist a great potential for the green industry to create jobs for millions of Americans to fight global warming and construct a green economy
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Contents 1.0 Job Design Job design can defined as work arrangement or re- arrangement focused on overcoming job dissatisfaction and employee alienation arising from mechanistic tasks and repetitive. Organizations try to improve productivity levels by giving non- monetary rewards through job design. Non- monetary rewards such as better satisfaction from a personal achievement in meeting the responsibility of one’s work and increased challenge (Business Dictionary‚ 2013) It also refers to constitute
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Job Satisfaction Abstract The issue of Job Satisfaction‚ Motivation in the workplace and the role of Job Characteristics have been the cause of intensive research for many years now and have given rise to many theories‚ formed on the basis of extended research by psychologists‚ social scientists and HRD managers. The concept of job satisfaction‚ though of considerably recent origin‚ is closely linked to motivation in the workplace and is a causal factor in improved performance in the workplace
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Job Crafting and Meaningful Work 1 Job crafting and meaningful work Justin M. Berg The Wharton School‚ University of Pennsylvania bergj@wharton.upenn.edu Jane E. Dutton Ross School of Business‚ University of Michigan janedut@umich.edu Amy Wrzesniewski Yale School of Management amy.wrzesniewski@yale.edu Citation: Berg‚ J. M.‚ Dutton‚ J. E.‚ & Wrzesniewski‚ A. (2013). Job crafting and meaningful work. In B. J. Dik‚ Z. S. Byrne & M. F. Steger (Eds.)‚ Purpose and meaning in the workplace
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(1957)‚ Myer and Allen (1997). Job satisfaction and employees’ attitude have an effect to the capacity and productivity at the workplace directly. People who are very satisfied with their job often work greater effective or lack of absenteeism‚ quitting job and late for work or lethargy. In Vietnam‚ thank to profound globalization‚ people has especially cared about diversity in organization’s culture and doing many researches to understand more about the level of job satisfaction and attitudes toward
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CHAPTER 01 INTRODUCTION Job satisfaction refers to an employees general affective evaluation of his or her job. Spector defines the concept more simply as “how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of their jobs” (1997‚ 2). He also considers it as a “related constellation of attitudes about various aspects or facets of the job” (Spector 1997‚ 2). The organizations should be concerned about their employees level of job satisfaction? Employee satisfaction increases employee retention
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several questions arise. Such as‚ what does a workers expect from job up to organization ? How do attitudes of workers effect from quantity up quality of products ? What do they think about the management ? Etc the answer of all these questions may be that they think favorable if they are satisfied with the job or if they are unsatisfied or dissatisfied they think unfavorable. Thus job-satisfaction is the key to main problem. Job satisfaction is derived from the Latin word “Satis” and “facere” which
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