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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Attitudes and Job Satisfaction © HJ Lin in‐class Material All rights reserved. 3‐0 Attitudes Attitude: “a learned predisposition to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given object” gi Attitude object: physical objects‚ issues‚ ideas‚ events‚ people‚ places © HJ Lin in‐class Material All rights reserved. 3‐1 Attitudes Evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects‚ people‚ or events. Three components of an attitude:
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AB1601 Organizational Behavior & Design Semester 2‚ AY 2012/13 COVER PAGE Full Name: Loh Qi Hui Joan Matriculation Number: U1210649F Seminar Group Number: 03 Seminar Group Instructor: Professor Don Willis Assignment: Critical Thinking Date: 22 February 2013 Word Count: 1505 Assignment Submission Declaration
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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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culture‚ job satisfaction‚ organizational commitment and intention to quit. The population was the hotel staff in Thailand of which 908 were selected as subjects. The instrument used was a questionnaire with the reliability between 0.614-0.918. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the structural equation model was analyzed using SPSS and LISREL. The results revealed that the supervisors had higher levels of work life quality‚ perceived organizational culture‚ job satisfaction
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