Job Satisfaction subject: Org. Behavior Do people really 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. According to the surveys percentage of satisfied people averages in the US is about 85 percent. The feelings‚ reflecting attitudes toward one’s job‚ are known as job satisfaction. Settings‚ related to the personnel job satisfaction
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Job Satisfaction - Introduction The father of scientific management Taylor ’s (1911) approach to job satisfaction was based on a most pragmatic & essentially pessimistic philosophy that man is motivation by money alone. That the workers are essentially ’stupid & phlegmatic ’ & that they would be satisfied with work if they get higher economic benefit from it. But with the passage of time Taylor ’s solely monetary approach has been changed to a more humanistic approach. It has come a
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Job satisfaction is the very important factor in general quality of life because it is closely connected with working life. There are many definitions of job satisfaction. According to Spector (1997‚ p.2) Job satisfaction is: “simply how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of their jobs. It is the extent to which people like or dislike their jobs. It can also be considered as a global feeling about the job”. Colquitt‚ Lepine and Wesson (2009‚ p.105) defined job satisfaction as “a pleasurable
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Job Satisfaction Abstract Employee job satisfaction and retention happens to be an issue to be debated in terms of attaining an increased degree of productivity within the organization. Job satisfaction is best defined as a set of feelings and emotions employees associate with their work. Theoretically‚ an organization with employees that display actions of substantial absenteeism as well as turnover due to low levels of job satisfaction would generally suffer from greater recruitment and retraining
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Nowadays‚ job satisfaction has become an important issue for workers since it closely relates to physical and mental well-being. In order to find out what makes work satisfying‚ Studs Terkel interviewed three workers about their jobs in 1974 and Ethan Winning did a survey about job satisfaction in 2004. According to their results and my observation‚ there are three main factors that affect the job satisfaction: Salary and special incentives from jobs‚ personal and professional growth opportunities
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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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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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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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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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