ISSN: 2235 -767X P.P. 94 - 102 JOB SATISFACTION AND MOTIVATION: WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCE AMONG THESE TWO? Tan Shen Kian Email: shenkian@yahoo.com Wan Fauziah Wan Yusoff Faculty of Technology Management and Business University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Email: fauziahy@uthm.edu.my Sivan Rajah Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Email: schruti06@yahoo.com ABSTRACT M otivation and Job Satisfaction as the most discussed topic in
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something with their lives? Why do some people don’t even bother to find a job‚ they are just content with staying home and doing nothing? Not house women that take care of their kids and the house‚ just normal people that don’t even care enough to look for a job. If people complain about not liking what they are doing and they’re in the same post for years and years‚ why don’t they change something? Why do some look for a certain job and only accept working if they got what they were looking for? The
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©Trans-Atlantic College‚ London 2005 Motivation and Job Satisfaction Written by Dr Prince Efere – for Trans-Atlantic College‚ London Contents of this Paper 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Introduction Frederick Winslow Taylor – Scientific Management Elton Mayo – Hawthorne Experiments Abraham Maslow – Hierarchy of Needs Clayton Alderfer – ERG Theory Douglas McGregor - Theory X and Theory Y W. Ouchi – Theory Z Frederick Hertzberg – Hygiene Theory David C. McClelland -
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A PRELUDE TO JOB SATISFACTION Employee job satisfaction and retention has always been an issue to debate with regards to achieving a high level of productivity within an organization. Job satisfaction is best defined as a set of feelings and emotions employees associate with their work. It is an attitude which is inversely related to behaviors such as absenteeism and staff turnover. In theory‚ an organization with employees that display behaviors of high absenteeism and turnover as a result of
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man who sings at his work.” – Thomas Carlyle In this essay‚ job performance has been defined and the main categories of job performance have been laid out to show the exact difference between task‚ contextual and counterproductive performance. Also‚ the association between job performance and satisfaction has been reviewed thoroughly to prove what matters most in order for an organization’s employees to perform at soaring levels. Job performance is formally defined as the value of the set of employee
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that one can truly comprehend the differences between different cultures. Even when we are working with people who we think share our culture‚ we can easily be mistaken‚ and they can in fact have a completely different culture‚ and subsequently a totally dissimilar ways of working. We are all well aware of the major cultural differences between us‚ such as religion‚ race‚ and the languages that we speak‚ but what about the subtle cultural differences between us that are not so easy to spot or that are
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TITLE Table of Contents TITLE 1 INTRODUCTION: 3 MOTIVATION 4 Incentive 4 Fear 4 Power 5 Social 6 NEED THEORIES 6 Maslow ’s Hierarchy of Needs: 6 Herzberg ’s two-factor theory: 8 Alderfer ’s ERG theory: 9 Self-determination theory: 9 Achievement motivation: 9 COGNITIVE THEORY: 10 Goal-setting theory 10 Models of behavior change : 10 Other motivational theories 10 JOB SATISFACTION 12 LITERATURE REVIEW: 14 PRESENT STUDY: 25 METHODOLOGY 26 LIMITATION 28 OBSERVATION AND FINDING 28 CONCLUSION 28 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The term ‘motivation’ is derived from the word ‘motive’ which influences the behavior of individuals. Motives are the expression of needs of a human being. Motivation is a process of getting the needs of the people realized to induce them to work for the accomplishment of organizational objectives. Motivation is a behavioral psychological concept. It seeks to understand why people behave the way they do. The intention is to produce goal-oriented behavior. It aims at influencing
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Conceptual Background This paper will discuss about job satisfaction and its relation with job performance and absenteeism. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job. Stephen P. Robbins based in his book (Organizational Behavior‚ 12th edition) described job satisfaction as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Job satisfaction is one of dependent variable of organizational behavior
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7 WORK MOTIVATION AND JOB SATISFACTION The relationship between the organisation and its members is influenced by what motivates them to work and the rewards and fulfilment they derive from it. The nature of the work organisation‚ styles of leadership and the design and content of jobs can have a significant effect on the satisfaction of staff and their levels of performance. The manager needs to know how best to elicit the co-operation of staff and direct their efforts to achieving
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