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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Chapter 6 Perception and Individual Decision Making 6 CHAPTER Perception and Individual Decision Making LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ your students should be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Define perception‚and explain the factors that influence it. Explain attribution theory‚ and list the three determinants of attribution. Identify the shortcuts individuals use in making judgments about others. Explain the link betweenperception and decision making
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happy‚" he told The World Today. "But what I do know is that the happier your workers‚ the better your business is performing. "It is not unreasonable to aspire to‚ if you are a worker‚ to want to have a good job where you don’t feel like taking sick leave‚ where you don’t feel like changing jobs on a regular basis‚ where you feel valued‚ where you feel that what you do is an intrinsically worthwhile something and where you feel that your potential is being fulfilled." He says happy workers could add
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©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Work motivation and job satisfaction dynamics of textile employees Yasemin Oraman Department of Agricultural Economics‚ Faculty of Agricultural‚ Namik Kemal University‚ Turkey. E-mail: yoraman@nku.edu.tr. Accepted 25 February‚ 2011 The main objective of the research is to evaluate the effective dynamics of work motivation and job satisfaction of textile employees. It analyzes the effectiveness of psycho-social‚ economic‚ organizational and
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INTRODUCTION A teacher‚ who is happy with his job‚ plays a pivotal role in the upliftment of society. Well adjusted and satisfied teacher can contribute a lot to the well being of his/her pupils. A dissatisfied teacher can become irritable and may create tensions which can have negative influence on the students’ learning process and it consequently affects their academic growth. Job satisfaction implies the overall adjustment to work situation. Attitude is readiness to react towards or against
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com/loi/whrh20 Emotional Intelligence‚ Job Satisfaction‚ and Job Tenure among Hotel Managers Kara Wolfe & Hyun Jeong Kim a a b Bradley University‚ Family and Consumer Sciences‚ Peoria‚ Illinois‚ USA b School of Hospitality Business Management‚ College of Business‚ Washington State University‚ Pullman‚ Washington‚ USA Published online: 27 Feb 2013. To cite this article: Kara Wolfe & Hyun Jeong Kim (2013): Emotional Intelligence‚ Job Satisfaction‚ and Job Tenure among Hotel Managers‚ Journal of Human
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Job is an activity that most of people would do in our life. We live in a world where the variety of jobs is immense‚ and majority of us can choose job by our own decisions. Many people approve that job satisfaction comes first‚ while others think that we should take job security as priority. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast job satisfaction and job security. Three aspects that I am going to discuss are motivation‚ pressure and value. Job satisfaction describes people are engaged
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1 Doing Poorly by Doing Good: Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Concepts CARLOS J. TORELLI ALOKPARNA BASU MONGA ANDREW M. KAIKATI 2 Carlos J. Torelli (ctorelli@umn.edu) is Assistant Professor of Marketing‚ Carlson School of Management‚ University of Minnesota‚ 19th Avenue South‚ Minneapolis‚ MN 55455. Alokparna (Sonia) Basu Monga (alokparna.monga@moore.sc.edu) is Assistant Professor of Marketing‚ Darla Moore School of Business‚ University of South Carolina‚ 1705 College
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1. Introduction: Job satisfaction describes how content an individual is with his or her job. It is a relatively recent term since in previous centuries the jobs available to a particular person were often predetermined by the occupation of that person’s parent. There are a variety of factors that can influence a person’s level of job satisfaction. Some of these factors include the level of pay and benefits‚ the perceived fairness of the promotion
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management styles utilized to motivate and enhance employee performance. Thus satisfaction of employees is imperative to the success of any business. A high rate of employee contentment is directly related to a lower turnover rate and higher productivity. Thus‚ keeping employees’ satisfied with their jobs should be a top priority of every employer. There are numerous reasons as to why employees can become discouraged with their jobs and perform poorly or resign. This can include limited opportunity for
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