Session Objectives • To understand attitudes‚ their components and how they affect our behaviours • Compare and contrast the major job attitudes. • Define job satisfaction and show how it can be measured. • Summarize the main causes of job satisfaction. Attitudes are evaluative statements- either favourable or unfavourable- about objects‚ people or events. Jung’s definition of attitude is a "readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain way" (Jung‚ [1921] Most attitudes are the result
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Cotton on can do a job analysis by interviewing its existing employees or by observing them work while taking down notes of their tasks‚ duties and responsibilities. Job description identifies conditions in which work is performed. A good job analysis will attract the right candidates and reduce chances of skill deficiencies. Cotton On can use a combination of design for efficiency as a method to job design‚ also called industrial engineering in which they find
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man who sings at his work.” – Thomas Carlyle In this essay‚ job performance has been defined and the main categories of job performance have been laid out to show the exact difference between task‚ contextual and counterproductive performance. Also‚ the association between job performance and satisfaction has been reviewed thoroughly to prove what matters most in order for an organization’s employees to perform at soaring levels. Job performance is formally defined as the value of the set of employee
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Muringu 1. JOB SATISFACTION 4 A. DEFINATION 4 B. IMPORTANT FACTORS USED TO MEASURE AND INFLUENCE JOB SATISFACTION 4 C. DETERMINANTS OF JOB SATISFACTION 5 i. The Evaluative Component 5 ii. The Cognitive Component 6 iii. The Affective Component 7 D. CAUSES OF JOB SATISFACTION 9 i. Job characteristic 9 ii. Social information processing (organizational characteristics) 10 iii. Dispositional (worker characteristics) 10 iv. Life Satisfaction 10 E. IMPACT FOR JOB SATISFACTION 11 F. JOB SATISFACTION APPLICATIONS
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Conceptual Background This paper will discuss about job satisfaction and its relation with job performance and absenteeism. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job. Stephen P. Robbins based in his book (Organizational Behavior‚ 12th edition) described job satisfaction as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Job satisfaction is one of dependent variable of organizational
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Modern Applied Science; Vol. 6‚ No. 7; 2012 ISSN 1913-1844 E-ISSN 1913-1852 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Job Satisfaction of Faculty Members of Universities in Pakistan: A Case Study of University of Sindh-Jamshoro Anwar Ali Shah G. Syed1‚ Nadeem Bhatti2‚ Sabir Michael3‚ Faiz M. Shaikh4 & Hina Shah5 1 2 3 4 5 Business Administration & Pro-Vice Chancellor‚ University of Sindh‚ Jamshoro‚ Pakistan Head of Faculty‚ North American College‚ Toronto‚ Ontario‚ Canada PAF
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Management. Employee satisfaction is a measure of how happy workers are with their job and working environment. Keeping morale high among workers can be of tremendous benefit to any company‚ as happy workers will be more likely to produce more‚ take fewer days off‚ and stay loyal to the company. There are many factors in improving or maintaining high employee satisfaction‚ which wise employers would do well to implement. Job satisfaction is one of the important factors which have drawn attention of managers
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Factors/Explanation of a Job Evaluation Scheme: A job evaluation scheme is “a method to determine the value of each job in relation to all jobs within the organization.” A job evaluation process is useful because sometimes job titles can be misleading- either unclear or unspecific- and in large organizations it’s impossible for those in HR to know each job in detail. The use of job evaluation techniques depends on individual circumstances. Job evaluation is often used when: establishing
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First Day on the Job Vivian Quattlebaum Strayer University Human Resource Management/HRM530 August 25‚ 2011 Abstract Job satisfaction describes how content an individual is with his or her job. The happier people are within their job‚ the more satisfied they are said to be. Job satisfaction is not the same as motivation or aptitude‚ although it is clearly linked. Job design aims to enhance job satisfaction and performance. Methods include job rotation‚ enlargement‚ enrichment and re-engineering
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Important to Your Job Satisfaction? Kaplan University School of Business and Management MT302 Organizational Behavior Author: Kedner Poux Professor: Sapham Perez Date: October 27‚ 2012 Everyone has their own way to express their satisfaction about their employee‚ however‚ job Satisfaction‚ according to Williams J.‚ is defined as "the extent to which people like (satisfaction) or dislike (dissatisfaction) their jobs" (Spector‚ 1997‚ p. 2). This definition suggests job satisfaction is a
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