OB Assaignment Case Study
Abstract
This study examines the influence of employee in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The impact of employee on five dimensions of work- based satisfaction was assessed. These dimensions include: satisfaction with pay; satisfaction with job characteristics; satisfaction with promotion opportunities; satisfaction with co-workers and satisfaction with supervisors. The principal finding of the study is that the employees express a higher level of satisfaction with pay, job characteristics, promotion opportunities, co-workers, and supervisors than their expatriate counterparts. The study attributes this disparity to social comparison, complexity of work, job stress, role ambiguity, lack of integration in formal and social network within work groups, unfulfilled career advancement, language and culture barriers, and the authoritarian management style of Arab employees.
Introduction
Job satisfaction in regards to one’s feeling or state of mind regarding nature of their work. Job can be influenced by variety of factors like quality of one’s relationship with their supervisor, quality of physical environment in which they work, degree of fulfillment in their work, etc.
Positive attitude towards job are equivalent to job satisfaction where as negative attitude towards job has been defined variously from time to time. In short job satisfaction is a person’s attitude towards job. Job satisfaction is an attitude which results from balancing & summation of many specific likes and dislikes experienced in connection with the job- their evaluation may rest largely upon one’s success or failure in the achievement of personal objective and upon perceived combination of the job and combination towards these end. The study is divided into five sections: The first section provides background information on the context. The second section provides rationale for the study while the third section reviews the relevant literature and offers a series of hypotheses
This study examines the influence of employee in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The impact of employee on five dimensions of work- based satisfaction was assessed. These dimensions include: satisfaction with pay; satisfaction with job characteristics; satisfaction with promotion opportunities; satisfaction with co-workers and satisfaction with supervisors. The principal finding of the study is that the employees express a higher level of satisfaction with pay, job characteristics, promotion opportunities, co-workers, and supervisors than their expatriate counterparts. The study attributes this disparity to social comparison, complexity of work, job stress, role ambiguity, lack of integration in formal and social network within work groups, unfulfilled career advancement, language and culture barriers, and the authoritarian management style of Arab employees.
Introduction
Job satisfaction in regards to one’s feeling or state of mind regarding nature of their work. Job can be influenced by variety of factors like quality of one’s relationship with their supervisor, quality of physical environment in which they work, degree of fulfillment in their work, etc.
Positive attitude towards job are equivalent to job satisfaction where as negative attitude towards job has been defined variously from time to time. In short job satisfaction is a person’s attitude towards job. Job satisfaction is an attitude which results from balancing & summation of many specific likes and dislikes experienced in connection with the job- their evaluation may rest largely upon one’s success or failure in the achievement of personal objective and upon perceived combination of the job and combination towards these end. The study is divided into five sections: The first section provides background information on the context. The second section provides rationale for the study while the third section reviews the relevant literature and offers a series of hypotheses
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