When W e study the interaction between human needs and organizational climate several questions arise. Such as, what does a workers expect from job up to organization ? How do attitudes of workers effect from quantity up quality of products ? What do they think about the management ? Etc the answer of all these questions may be that they think favorable if they are satisfied with the job or if they are unsatisfied or dissatisfied they think unfavorable. Thus job-satisfaction is the key to main problem.
Job satisfaction is derived from the Latin word “Satis” and “facere” which means “enough and to do “ respectively.
C.L. Hulpin, measured the effects of community characteristics of job satisfaction of female clerical workers. He found that job conditions held constant job satisfaction.
The success of any organization depends on the effective utilization and motivation of human resources.
More often “Employee Attitude”, “Job satisfaction” and industrial morale are used synonymously but they are not the same.
A favorable attitude may contribute to job-satisfaction because job satisfaction is the result of so many attitudes. Likewise job satisfaction and morale do not carry the same meaning, though job satisfaction improves the employee morale.
MEANING & DEFINITIONS:
The term job satisfaction refers to an employee’s general attitude towards his job.
Job satisfaction is the favorableness or un-favorableness with which employees view their work.
A person is satisfied with his home and community life is also satisfied with his job.
DEFINITION:
According to “Keith Davis” job satisfaction as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of ones or job experience”.
According to “LOCKE” job satisfaction as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of ones or job experience”.
According to “ROBERT C.KAHN” job satisfaction does seem to reduce absence, turnover and