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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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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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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AND SOCIAL SCIENCES www.ijbmss-ng.com International Journal of Business‚ Management and Social Sciences Vol. 2‚ No. 1‚ 2011‚ pp. 24-32 © 2011 MultiCraft Limited. All rights reserved The influence of leadership styles on employees’ job satisfaction in public sector organizations in Malaysia M.L. Voon1*‚ M.C. Lo2‚ K.S. Ngui1‚ N.B. Ayob2 1 School of Business and Design‚ Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak‚ MALAYSIA 2 Faculty of Business and Economics‚ University of Malaysia
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Job Satisfaction Abstract The issue of Job Satisfaction‚ Motivation in the workplace and the role of Job Characteristics have been the cause of intensive research for many years now and have given rise to many theories‚ formed on the basis of extended research by psychologists‚ social scientists and HRD managers. The concept of job satisfaction‚ though of considerably recent origin‚ is closely linked to motivation in the workplace and is a causal factor in improved performance in the workplace
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Job satisfaction is a term‚ which refers to an individual’s general attitude towards his or her job. A person with a high level of job satisfaction holds positive attitudes towards the job‚ while a person who is dissatisfied with his or her job holds negative attitudes about the job. When people speak of employee attitudes‚ often they mean job satisfaction. Organization is a very vital place for an employee‚ where he or she can show their performance. Besides‚ the performance of every employee also
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Methods to measure job satisfaction It is very important for companies that their employees are satisfied and happy with their job‚ because this leads to a higher working morale. This again leads to a higher output and performance of the workers as well as lower overall costs‚ which is profitable for the company. So everybody benefits from a positive working atmosphere. There are a various number of ways how employers can measure the job satisfaction of their employees. The most common ways are:
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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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majority of their life at work job satisfaction is an important element of everyone’s individual well-being. “Job satisfaction is a positive feeling that one gets about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics (Robbins‚ S. P.‚ & Judge‚ T. A. pg. 75‚ 2013).”The top five factors and why they are important to me would have to be job security‚ relationship with co-workers‚ safety with in the work place‚ compensation / pay‚ and benefits. Job security Job security is important to me so
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causes it. Regardless of the type of industry or company‚ absenteeism is indeed inevitable. This happens even in the most prestigious and expanding companies. Absenteeism is the habitual non-presence of an employee at his or her job. Possible causes of absenteeism include job dissatisfaction‚ ongoing personal issues and chronic medical problems. Regardless of the cause‚ a worker with a pattern of being absent may put his reputation and his employed status at risk. (www.investopedia.com). From the
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