Page 1 Job Satisfaction: What is it? Why is it Important? How Can you Get it? by Kevin Scheid The issue of job satisfaction‚ what it is and why it is important‚ brings with it a great deal of research and opinion accompanied by a vast store of written material. However ‚ the topic j ob satisfaction lacks clarity and is sometimes controversial. The term “job satisfaction” is understood to mean everything from “making all aspects of a job easy for employees” to “making the job meaningful
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individual behaviour. That concept may be attitudes‚ job satisfaction‚ personality‚ values‚ perceptions‚ emotions and moods‚ or motivation. Recently‚ there is a widely debate on whether a happy employee is a productive employee‚ which indicates that people pay an increasing attention on individual’s feelings or satisfaction on their job. The key issues are that what are the causes of job satisfaction‚ how important is it and how to improve job satisfaction of employees‚ especially by managers. To understand
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MOBILINK Use goals and feedback: Mobilink consider that employees should have hard but realistic‚ specific goals‚ as well as feedback on how well they are faring in pursuit of those goals. Mobilink have shift work and 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
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to study the relationship among factors influencing the hotel staff in Thailand’s intention to quit using the structural equation model gained from the review of related literature. The factors included quality of work life‚ 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
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pportunity for Advancement Employees are more satisfied with their current job if they see a path available to move up the ranks in the company and be given more responsibility and along with it higher compensation. Many companies encourage employees to acquire more advanced skills that will lead to the chance of promotion. Companies often pay the cost of tuition for employees taking university courses‚ for example. During an employee’s annual performance review‚ a supervisor should map out a path
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What Factors Are Most Important to Your Job Satisfaction? Gilberto Carreras Kaplan University Introduction Now days everyone needs a job‚ Men‚ Women‚ Teens and everyone has different opinions on their job satisfaction. Based on my opinion and my research I will present what five factors that are important to me in the job force. There is so much that people wants from their jobs‚ however every day employers are cutting benefits and the employee does not have a choice‚ just to accept it. What
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attitudes and behavior The relationship between employees and their organization has been always attracted a considerable attention from the public these days. Therefore‚ there are numerous researchers doing thousands of researching projects related to this head topic like Argyris (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
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(1985a) ‘How Culture Forms‚ Develops and Changes’‚ in R. H. Kilmann‚ M. J. Saxton‚ R. Serpa & associates (eds)‚ Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture‚ San Francisco‚ Calif.: Jossey Bass. 17-43. Schein‚ E.H. (1985b) Organisational Culture and Leadership‚ San Francisco‚ Calif.: Jossey Bass. Scholz‚ C. (1987) ‘Corporate Culture and Strategy – the Problem of Strategic Fit’‚ Long Range Planning‚ 20 (4)‚ 78-87. Skinner‚ D.‚ Shauders‚ M N K. and Duckett‚ H. (2004) Policies‚ promises and trust: improving
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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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his or her work. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job;[1] an affective reaction to one’s job;[2] and an attitude towards one’s job.[3] Weiss (2002) has argued that job satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect (emotion)‚ beliefs and behaviours.[4] This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards our jobs by taking into account
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