Empolay Satisfation
36 | Journal of Management and Science
Vol.1, No.1 (Sep’2011)
ISSN: 2249-1260
A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTION OF PAPER MILL EMPLOYEES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UDUMALPET AND PALANI TALUK
Dr.R.Anitha Associate professor, Department of Management, Sasi Creative School of Management, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, E-Mail: anirkgoutham@yahoo.co.in
ABSTRACT Job satisfaction is a general attitude towards one’s job, the difference between the amount of reward workers receive and the amount they believe they should receive. Employee is a back bone of every organization, without employee no work can be done. So employee’s satisfaction is very important. Employees will be more satisfied if they get what they expected, job satisfaction relates to inner feelings of workers. As Udumalpet and Palani Taluk are famous for paper industries, the main aim of this study is to analyze the satisfaction level of paper mill employees. Chi-Square test and percentage analysis have been used in this study to analyze the job satisfaction of paper mill employees in Udumalpet and Palani Taluk. The study shows that only 44% of the employees are satisfied with the working conditions, 31% of them with the welfare facilities, 44% of them with the accident compensation, and 42% of them are satisfied with the rewards provided and 52% of them are satisfied with the grievance handling procedure. The organization may give importance to certain factors such as Canteen, rest room facilities, rewards, recognition and promotion policy so that satisfaction of the employees may be improved further. Key words: Job satisfaction, Paper mill, Job security, Rewards, working conditions
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INTRODUCTION Job satisfaction is the collection of tasks and responsibilities regularly assigned to one person, while a job is a
group of positions, which involves essentially the same duties, responsibility, skill and knowledge”. Job satisfaction has some relation with the mental health of the people. It spreads
Vol.1, No.1 (Sep’2011)
ISSN: 2249-1260
A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTION OF PAPER MILL EMPLOYEES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO UDUMALPET AND PALANI TALUK
Dr.R.Anitha Associate professor, Department of Management, Sasi Creative School of Management, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, E-Mail: anirkgoutham@yahoo.co.in
ABSTRACT Job satisfaction is a general attitude towards one’s job, the difference between the amount of reward workers receive and the amount they believe they should receive. Employee is a back bone of every organization, without employee no work can be done. So employee’s satisfaction is very important. Employees will be more satisfied if they get what they expected, job satisfaction relates to inner feelings of workers. As Udumalpet and Palani Taluk are famous for paper industries, the main aim of this study is to analyze the satisfaction level of paper mill employees. Chi-Square test and percentage analysis have been used in this study to analyze the job satisfaction of paper mill employees in Udumalpet and Palani Taluk. The study shows that only 44% of the employees are satisfied with the working conditions, 31% of them with the welfare facilities, 44% of them with the accident compensation, and 42% of them are satisfied with the rewards provided and 52% of them are satisfied with the grievance handling procedure. The organization may give importance to certain factors such as Canteen, rest room facilities, rewards, recognition and promotion policy so that satisfaction of the employees may be improved further. Key words: Job satisfaction, Paper mill, Job security, Rewards, working conditions
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INTRODUCTION Job satisfaction is the collection of tasks and responsibilities regularly assigned to one person, while a job is a
group of positions, which involves essentially the same duties, responsibility, skill and knowledge”. Job satisfaction has some relation with the mental health of the people. It spreads
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