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
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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
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AB1601 Organizational Behavior & Design Semester 2‚ AY 2012/13 COVER PAGE Full Name: Loh Qi Hui Joan Matriculation Number: U1210649F Seminar Group Number: 03 Seminar Group Instructor: Professor Don Willis Assignment: Critical Thinking Date: 22 February 2013 Word Count: 1505 Assignment Submission Declaration
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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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SECTION-I JOB SATISFACTION 4.1 INTRODUCTION Human Resource Management is considered to be the most valuable asset in any organization. It is the sum-total of inherent abilities‚ acquired knowledge and skills represented by the talents and aptitudes of the employed persons who comprise of executives‚ supervisors‚ and the rank and file employees. It may be noted here that human resources should be utilized to the maximum possible extent‚ in order to achieve individual and organizational goals
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perceived organizational culture‚ job satisfaction‚ organizational commitment and intention to quit. The population was the hotel staff in Thailand of which 908 were selected as subjects. The instrument used was a questionnaire with the reliability between 0.614-0.918. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the structural equation model was analyzed using SPSS and LISREL. The results revealed that the supervisors had higher levels of work life quality‚ perceived organizational culture
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Attitudes and Job Satisfaction © HJ Lin in‐class Material All rights reserved. 3‐0 Attitudes Attitude: “a learned predisposition to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given object” gi Attitude object: physical objects‚ issues‚ ideas‚ events‚ people‚ places © HJ Lin in‐class Material All rights reserved. 3‐1 Attitudes Evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects‚ people‚ or events. Three components of an attitude:
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Job Satisfaction Abstract Employee job satisfaction and retention happens to be an issue to be debated in terms of attaining an increased degree of productivity within the organization. Job satisfaction is best defined as a set of feelings and emotions employees associate with their work. Theoretically‚ an organization with employees that display actions of substantial absenteeism as well as turnover due to low levels of job satisfaction would generally suffer from greater recruitment and retraining
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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
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Job satisfaction is the very important factor in general quality of life because it is closely connected with working life. There are many definitions of job satisfaction. According to Spector (1997‚ p.2) Job satisfaction is: “simply how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of their jobs. It is the extent to which people like or dislike their jobs. It can also be considered as a global feeling about the job”. Colquitt‚ Lepine and Wesson (2009‚ p.105) defined job satisfaction as “a pleasurable
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