Attempting to understand the nature of job satisfaction and its effects on work performance is not easy. For at least 50 years industrial/organizational psychologists have been wrestling with the question of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. Researchers have put a considerable amount of effort into attempts to demonstrate that the two are positively related in a particular fashion: a happy worker is a good worker. Although this sounds like a very appealing idea‚ the results
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Job Satisfaction Definition Confucius said: “Choose a job you love and you will never had to work a day in your life.” In fact‚ this quote is a synthesis for job satisfaction. Job satisfaction refers to positive feelings‚ hopes‚ and expectations from employees’ toward their work. Job Satisfaction Analysis Job satisfaction promotes partnership between managers and employees. In particular‚ employees become more effective‚ productive‚ and efficient while contribute to the company mission. Consequently
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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 showing her what
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What is Job Satisfaction? Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job‚an affective reaction to one’s job and an attitude towards one’s job. 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.This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards our jobs by taking into account our feelings‚ our
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Contents 1. Title 1 2. Research Background 1 3. Literature Review 3 3.1 About MFM Restaurants in Kuala Lumpur 3 3.2 Job Satisfaction Definition 4 3.2 Factors influence to level of job satisfaction 5 3.2.1 Leadership Style 6 3.2.2 Compensation 8 3.2.3 Work-life Balance 9 3.3 Why job satisfaction is important? 9 3.4 Research framework 12 4. Problem statement 12 5. Research Objective 13 6. Research Methodologies 14 6.1 Research Tasks 14 6.2 Study population
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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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Kong‚ having a job that employees are absolutely satisfied is only a pure dream. But it could found a method in order to increase the satisfaction and having heart on the job. Actually‚ there is someone who wants to doing the clerical works in the office‚ or solving the questions for the customers‚ promoting their products by phone. We can find the unpredicted place and work it with satisfaction. Job satisfaction represented a collection of attitudes that workers have about their jobs. There is number
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absenteeism are still very rampant in this industry. Employees would seldom last long in a certain BPO company for some reasons. Absenteeism has also been inevitable. Both turnover rate and absenteeism affects the profitability and the overall performance of a BPO company. Most likely‚ absenteeism will cause struggle to the Human Resource Department in looking for another employee who can temporarily fill-in the duty hours of the absentee. With such a background‚ the researchers decided to come
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that service quality has been increasingly recognized as a critical factor in the success of any business (Parasuraman et al.‚ 1988) and the banking sector in this case is not exceptional. Service quality has been widely used to evaluate the performance of banking services (Cowling and Newman‚ 1995). The banks understand that customers will be loyal if they receive greater value than from competitors (Dawes and Swailes‚ 1999) and on the other hand‚ banks can earn high profits if they are able to
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sound like a satisfying job? Observations: Characteristics of the 4 jobs were quite similar. John Bishop: good stable job‚ irregular long hours (90 to 100- hour work week)‚ no complaints‚ willing to take things to the extreme Irene Tse :good stable job‚ long hours (80 - hour work week)‚ no complaints‚ willing to take things to the extreme and highly motivated Tony Kurz : good stable job‚ long irregular hours‚ constant travels‚ highly satisfied with job‚ prefers job more to personal relationships
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