Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Employee motivation and job satisfaction have always been an important issue in an organization‚ but few organizations have not made motivation and job satisfaction top priorities or even neglected the issue at times. The failure of the managers in the organization to determine the motivational factors of the employees will create dissatisfaction of the employees which will eventually result to the decrease in productivity of the employees
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Job satisfaction means different things to different people‚ but at its simplest‚ it reflects a person’s overall assessment of their job‚ particularly their emotions‚ behaviors‚ and attitudes about their work experience. On the surface‚ it bears a lot of resemblance to employee engagement‚ but the two are distinct: employee engagement involves employees’ discretionary effort they apply to their jobs‚ how committed and motivated they go beyond merely having the jobs meet their satisfaction. Although
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challenging when it comes to achieving job satisfaction. According to Zondag (2001) “Pastors meet with little recognition‚ face heavy workloads‚ often have to go it alone‚ and promotion and career opportunities are few and far between” (p. 311). Based on the research provided by Zondag‚ many of the extrinsic variables that prompt satisfaction for other types of professions are not commonly present in religious service. With the realization that job satisfaction is such and important and integral part
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FUNCTION OF JOB SATISFACTION Introduction There is confusion and debate among practitioners on the topic of employee attitudes and job satisfaction even at a time when employees are increasingly important for organizational success and competitiveness. “Happy employees are productive employees.”“Happy employees are not productive employees.” We hear these conflicting statements made by HR professionals and managers in organizations. This research aims at establishing job satisfaction as a basis
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Stress‚ Job Satisfaction and Social Support: What Relationship do they have to Workplace Turnover Intentions? Amy Levin‚ MSW‚ PhD California State University Northridge Abstract This study tested a theoretical model depicting the relationships between diversity characteristics‚ organizational climate and personal outcome variables on intention to leave among child welfare workers. In a cross sectional design‚ a sample of 418 child welfare workers was drawn from a large public agency
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Emotional Labor 1 Running Head: EMOTIONAL LABOR EFFECTS ON JOB Emotional Labor Effects on Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance PSY5002 Section: 04 Emotional Labor 2 Abstract A study was conducted to examine the effects of emotional labor on the well-being of customer service employees. In the article‚ Emotional labor in service
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Human Resource Development & Job Satisfaction Human Resource Development and Job Satisfaction Opportunities for training and development are paramount in decisions regarding employee career choices. It is important that those in the human resource development (HRD) look at how their work affects those who they provide service. HRD is a field that focuses on training‚ career development and organizational development with the goal of improving processes and enhancing the learning and performance
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satisfied them. Job satisfaction: Mr. Marsh noticed that the employees always want coffee and by going out regularly for coffee they would be violating the company principle‚ that states that people can go out for incessant coffee breaks. He was able to satisfy the wants of his employees by having a member of staff bring in coffee during the afternoon. This will certainly increase the job satisfaction among the employees. Besides the work itself‚ one of the most salient factors influencing job satisfaction
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AND EMPLOYEES JOB SATISFACTION: ACASE STUDY IN SECRET RECIPE MALAYSIA BRANCH 1. INTRODUCTION Ethics qualities in an organization are highly concentrated to avoid unhealthy behavior and to inspire superior reasoning‚ performance‚ innovation‚ teamwork‚ and process breakthroughs that results in sustainable competitive advantages. Given the importance of organizational ethical quality and its effects on organizational outcomes (such as organizational commitment‚ job satisfaction and employee performance)
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Job satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates 1. What are three things that employers could do to increase the job satisfaction of the staff? According to the Case Incident 2 “Job satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates” we can see that most of readers of the Gulf News were dissatisfied about the salary. But referring to the research and information from the book we can state that salary does not have strong correlation with satisfaction. Money increasing satisfaction level but
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