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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The issue whether a company’s long-term success depending on the job satisfaction and job security felt by employees is complex and controversial. Different people hold different ideas due to their own respective angles. Some people think that job satisfaction and job security are the most important things that a manager should consider‚ while others asserts that other factors such as productivity or extensive training play more important roles. As far as I am concerned‚ however‚ I agree with the
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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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Job satisfaction is a key factor that leads to success in the world of corporations. Job satisfaction is defined as‚ “the extent to which people like or dislike their jobs”. It can influence a company at the individual level‚ the group level and even to the point of impacting a corporation as a whole. Employee contentment can also affect a company on the economic level. Job satisfaction influences nearly every aspect of a corporation. Therefore‚ understanding job satisfaction is important to
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Modern Applied Science; Vol. 6‚ No. 7; 2012 ISSN 1913-1844 E-ISSN 1913-1852 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Job Satisfaction of Faculty Members of Universities in Pakistan: A Case Study of University of Sindh-Jamshoro Anwar Ali Shah G. Syed1‚ Nadeem Bhatti2‚ Sabir Michael3‚ Faiz M. Shaikh4 & Hina Shah5 1 2 3 4 5 Business Administration & Pro-Vice Chancellor‚ University of Sindh‚ Jamshoro‚ Pakistan Head of Faculty‚ North American College‚ Toronto‚ Ontario‚ Canada PAF
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Customer loyalty and customer satisfaction Customer Loyalty can be difficult to define given the different views that are presented within the literature. Zithaml‚ Berry and Parasuraman (1996) determine that loyalty includes a customer’s intention to stay with an organisation and that loyalty includes four elements: repurchase intentions‚ recommending the service provider to other customers‚ less complaints and tolerance of price increases. Oliver‚ (1999) provides a different definition and
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01. Overview of job satisfaction Importance of employee satisfaction took great interest from researchers and management of organizations because it has its own influences upon an employee’s social as well as professional life. According to Mitchell and Larson (1987) job satisfaction cannot be defined properly in to several statements‚ they experienced more than 3000 studies upon the job satisfaction and after that they commented. Lock (1976) placed a definition of job satisfaction which is admired
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International Differences in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Job Quality Characteristics and Worker Satisfaction‚ 1989-2005 Jonathan H. Westover‚ Ph.D. Director of Academic Service Learning Assistant Professor of Management Woodbury School of Business Utah Valley University 800 W. University Parkway‚ MS-119 Orem‚ UT 84058-5999‚ USA. Abstract In this research‚ I apply and extend Handel’s (2005) model for understanding job characteristics and job satisfaction in the context of a changing global environment
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Arnthorsson Customer Satisfaction‚ Loyalty‚ and Empowerment 1. Should a company be happy or concerned if most customers are satisfied? Satisfaction of the consumer is one of the main goals for a company to achieve. Customer satisfaction is defined as the feeling that results when an offering meets a consumer’s expectations. Companies around the world are doing many surveys‚ in order to measure the satisfaction of their consumers because the importance of consumer satisfaction is one of the main
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factors to job satisfaction Joseph Green MT302-Organizational Behavior December 7‚ 2012 According to Robbins and Judge (2011)‚ job satisfaction is a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. The most important factors to job satisfaction in my work environment are: 1. Compensation/pay 2. Feeling safe in the work environment 3. Job security 4. Benefits 5. Relationship with co-workers 6. Career
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