Measuring job satisfaction: The definition of job satisfaction is a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. A job is more than just shuffling papers‚ writing programming code‚ waiting on customers. Job requires interacting with co-workers and bosses‚ following organizations rules and policies‚ meeting performance standards‚ and the like. The two approaches to this study are popular. The single global rating is a response to one question‚ such as “all
Premium Job satisfaction Employment
like their jobs? Definitely‚ everyone knows from the news about dissatisfied workers going on strike or even acting violently toward their supervisors‚ directors‚ but overall people are quite satisfied with their jobs. A Conference Board study found that 58.6 percent of Americans were satisfied with their jobs in 1995. By the year 2000‚ that percentage was down to 50.7. But in Uzbekistan (the country of Central Asia where I was born)‚ people generally aren’t satisfied with their job. The reason
Premium Employment Job satisfaction Productivity
[pic] IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON JOB SATISFACTION OF LECTURERS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF UiTM (PERAK) AZMAWANIE BINTI AZMI NURLIYANA BINTI CHE ANOUR SARAH BINTI IDILFITRI SITI NUR FATIMAH BINTI MANAP FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DATE OF SUBMISSION: JULY 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Our thanks go firstly to our beloved lecturer‚ Dr Hayati bin Jalal for all her words of wisdom‚ continuous support and encouragement for us
Premium Job satisfaction Demographics Higher education
TOPIC: FACTORS AFFECTING JOB SATISFACTION OF THE STAFF IN CAN THO UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY - VIET NAM Phan Thi Luyen‚ Master of Education in Educational Management Mahidol University‚ Thailand Introduction: Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy has been established since December 25th‚ 2002 based on the Decision No 184/2002/QĐ-TTg of the Prime Minister to be the first and the only medical university in the Mekong Delta‚ in the South West of Viet Nam. Its establishment helps
Premium Job satisfaction Organizational studies and human resource management
that service quality has been increasingly recognized as a critical factor in the success of any business (Parasuraman et al.‚ 1988) and the banking sector in this case is not exceptional. Service quality has been widely used to evaluate the performance of banking services (Cowling and Newman‚ 1995). The banks understand that customers will be loyal if they receive greater value than from competitors (Dawes and Swailes‚ 1999) and on the other hand‚ banks can earn high profits if they are able to
Premium Human resource management
therefore they know that the job characteristics are very important in order to motivate employees and they work a lot with this issue. The managers in the Mobilink has to give daily feedback to their employees and listen to conversations on what to improve MOBILINk Allow employees to participate in decisions that affect them: Since‚ at Mobilink‚ it is the employees that are the experts of the different work stations. Employees have the autonomy to influence the improvements of their work
Premium Motivation
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
Premium Organizational studies and human resource management Scientific method Employment
Organizational Commitment: Job Satisfaction‚ Stress‚ Motivation Udaya Kiran Kadali January 23‚ 2011 Abstract Today’s organization because of global competition and cost cutting had lead to great changes in the organizations leading to greater effect of organizational behaviors. Some organizations are losing employees to other organizations and some employees are losing their efficiency due to the lack of job satisfaction‚ or due to stress and/or due to lack of motivation‚ or combination
Premium Employment Job satisfaction Organization
rights reserved The influence of leadership styles on employees’ job satisfaction in public sector organizations in Malaysia M.L. Voon1*‚ M.C. Lo2‚ K.S. Ngui1‚ N.B. Ayob2 1 School of Business and Design‚ Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak‚ MALAYSIA 2 Faculty of Business and Economics‚ University of Malaysia Sarawak‚ MALAYSIA * Corresponding Author: e-mail: mvoon@swinburne.edu.my‚ Tel +60 82-260707‚ Fax.+60 82- 260815 Abstract Leadership is a process influence between leaders and
Premium Leadership Management Job satisfaction
The major causes of job satisfaction‚ how does job satisfaction impact productivity‚ absenteeism and turnover and how employee satisfaction is related to customer satisfaction in organizations. Job satisfaction is described as a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristic (Essentials of Organizational Behavior 10 edition‚ Stephen Robbins/Timothy Judge). According to Locke and Lathan (1976) the definition of job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional
Free Employment Maslow's hierarchy of needs