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 Sarawak
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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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What is Job Satisfaction? Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job‚an affective reaction to one’s job and an attitude towards one’s job. Job satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect emotion‚beliefs and behaviours.This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards our jobs by taking into account our feelings‚ our
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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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Contentment (or lack of it) arising out of interplay of employee’s positive and negative feelings toward his or her work. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job;[1] an affective reaction to one’s job;[2] and an attitude towards one’s job.[3] Weiss (2002) has argued that job satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect (emotion)‚ beliefs
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Patient satisfaction surveys and studies is an important tool in assessing the quality care outcomes. If designed and administered properly‚ the patient satisfaction surveys become excellent tools for assessing the quality of care received. However‚ there has long been a debate whether there is a correlation between patient satisfaction and quality outcomes‚ especially when the physician and the hospital compensation has been tied to the patient satisfaction measures. Patient satisfaction is largely
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1.0 TITLE OF THE STUDY Customer Satisfaction in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Analysis on service quality and service failure 2.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY / INTRODUCTION Customer satisfaction plays a crucial role for success and survival in today’s competitive market. Customer satisfaction is considered a prerequisite for customer retention and loyalty‚ and obviously helps in realizing economic goals like profitability‚ market share‚ return on investment‚ etc. (Scheuing‚ 1995; Reichheld‚
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personal approach to promotion which encourages a dialogue with customers and allows more targeted communications. If done well‚ benefits include increased customer retention‚ and the generation of ’brand ambassadors’ who promote your product via word of mouth. Advantages of continued relationship marketing with customers: The advantages of continued relationship with customers: 1. The continued relationship with the customer may initiate free word of mouth promotion and referrals. It
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satisfied with their jobs‚ how might this satisfaction relate to their job performance‚ citizenship behavior‚ and turnover? Answer * Job satisfaction of the employees is an important factor because most of the time it determines the commitment and respect of the employees towards their employer and organization. The attitudes and the behaviors of the workers would vary based on the level of job satisfaction. For example: one with a higher level of satisfaction would be more dedicated towards his or
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the efforts. They implemented the BlueBin system. * Kristiina Hyrka¨s and Denise Dende. (2009). Journal of Nursing Management. Perspectives on nursing job satisfaction‚ the work environment and burnout‚ Apr2009‚ Vol. 17 Issue 3‚ p267-268. 2p. A Series of articles compiled into one. This article presents several examples of Job satisfaction and the burnout syndrome. * John R. Schermerhorn (2012). Organizational Behavior 12th Edition‚ Ch.5‚ p103-107 and Ch. 6‚ p122-124 2. The Organization
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