The Effect of Gender on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Kuwait Rastied Al-Ajmi Kuwait University‚ Kuwait This study explored the effect of gender on employees perception of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in Kuwait. The study was conducted on 436 employees (213 females and 223 males) in five Kuwaiti government ministries. The author wondered whether Kuwaiti females are‚ at least‚ as committed and satisfied with their jobs when compared with their male counterparts
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motivating employees through job characteristics model: job characteristics model Definition A theoretical concept concerning how the fundamental features of an employee’s assigned tasks affect mental states and yield different workplace outcomes. The job characteristics model applicable to a business identifies the job characteristics of skill variety‚ autonomy‚ task significance‚ task identity and feedback‚ and the outcomes of high job performance‚ high job satisfaction‚ high intrinsic motivation
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activities of enterprise (Schein). Training for the Rank and File employees primarily is intended to prove skills in order to be productive and efficient. Training likewise aims to provide the employees the knowledge required in performing the job such information regarding the organization its goal and program its relationship to other units in the company and the relationship between employees work to that of other employees provide the feeling of the confidence‚ camaradene ‚ease‚ and motivation
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and culture. 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. 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 and behaviors. This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards our jobs by taking into
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marketing theorists claims that organizations that focus on their customer’ needs are better positioned to achieve long- term success than companies that do not (Kotler‚ 2000). Research has shown that customers receive social‚ psychological and economic benefits from engaging in long-term relations with service firms‚ and these yield positive returns for the companies (Gwinner et al.‚ 1998). But it is also important to recognise that when buying services customers tend not to be simply buying the elements
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ASSIGNMENT 1 Submission date 14th November 2014 Where to start? The following text describes the working life of five successful individuals with high levels of job satisfaction. You are asked to read this text and then discuss five questions presented in a table immediately after. You will find each of the assignment questions that you need to address on the left column‚ and the instructions to answer each question on the right column. READ this very carefully as these instructions give
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workforce steadily increases‚ so to has the amount of literature examining women’s attitudes towards employment and more specifically job satisfaction. This paper considers the proposition that women experience higher levels of job satisfaction than their male counterparts. It explains some of the inconsistencies surrounding previous research by highlighting important job aspects in relation to gender while accounting for varying occupational levels‚ education and employment status. The essay is divided
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tandfonline.com/loi/rijh20 Performance appraisal satisfaction and employee outcomes: mediating and moderating roles of work motivation Bård Kuvaas a a Department of Leadership and Organization Management‚ Norwegian School of Management‚ Nydalsveien 37‚ 0442 Oslo‚ Norway Phone: tel: (+47) 4641 0731 Fax: tel: (+47) 4641 0731 E-mail: Version of record first published: 02 Sep 2006. To cite this article: Bård Kuvaas (2006): Performance appraisal satisfaction and employee outcomes: mediating and moderating
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to find out if there is any correlation between work performance and job satisfaction through a sample study of sales personnel working in different banks. Additionally‚ this research sought to understand whether job satisfaction is linked to both work motivation and employee’s perceived style of leadership by Managers. With the help of surveys and interviews conducted with the participants‚ it was established that job satisfaction was positively related with work productivity. Work motivation and
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Project Title: A study on "EMPLOYEES ABSENTEEISM" Submitted by: XXXXXXX XXXXXX MBA - HR INTRODUCTION Project Title : A study on "EMPLOYEES ABSENTEEISM" with special reference to A1 EXPORTER Pvt. Ltd.‚ OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY To identity the reasons tor Absenteeism To measure the Employees Absenteeism level. To identity steps required to decrease the Absenteeism. To study. Employees working condition. To identity factor that motivates the Employees which minimize Absenteeism
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