Page 1 Job Satisfaction: What is it? Why is it Important? How Can you Get it? by Kevin Scheid The issue of job satisfaction‚ what it is and why it is important‚ brings with it a great deal of research and opinion accompanied by a vast store of written material. However ‚ the topic j ob satisfaction lacks clarity and is sometimes controversial. The term “job satisfaction” is understood to mean everything from “making all aspects of a job easy for employees” to “making the job meaningful
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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
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Attitudes and Job Satisfaction © HJ Lin in‐class Material All rights reserved. 3‐0 Attitudes Attitude: “a learned predisposition to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given object” gi Attitude object: physical objects‚ issues‚ ideas‚ events‚ people‚ places © HJ Lin in‐class Material All rights reserved. 3‐1 Attitudes Evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects‚ people‚ or events. Three components of an attitude:
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Job satisfaction is a term‚ which refers to an individual’s general attitude towards his or her job. A person with a high level of job satisfaction holds positive attitudes towards the job‚ while a person who is dissatisfied with his or her job holds negative attitudes about the job. When people speak of employee attitudes‚ often they mean job satisfaction. Organization is a very vital place for an employee‚ where he or she can show their performance. Besides‚ the performance of every employee also
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INTRODUCTION A teacher‚ who is happy with his job‚ plays a pivotal role in the upliftment of society. Well adjusted and satisfied teacher can contribute a lot to the well being of his/her pupils. A dissatisfied teacher can become irritable and may create tensions which can have negative influence on the students’ learning process and it consequently affects their academic growth. Job satisfaction implies the overall adjustment to work situation. Attitude is readiness to react towards or against
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JOB SATISFACTION AND DISSATISFACTION By Bambang Fahruddin‚ S.Pd Posted: May 29th‚ 2008 INTRODUCTION The discussion of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction is largely generated from the theories proposed by Maslow which is known with the so call “the needs theory” and Herzberg’s theory that is called “two-factor theory” or “hygiene theory”. Both job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are assumed critical for the organizations to manage since they absolutely affect the productivity as well as the
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E-MAILS‚ AND NO SLEEP: DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A SATISFYING JOB? The definition of job satisfaction can be broadly stated as the positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. In this case‚ we have seen three different people‚ in different kinds of job‚ who are truly satisfied with their job. 1. Do you think only certain individuals are attracted to these type of jobs or is it the characteristics of the job themselves that are satisfying? When we talk about
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behavior 3. Accessibility Attitudes and Job Satisfaction Attitudes: Evaluative Statements (fav. or unfav) about objects‚ people or events “I like my job” – Attitude about my job Components of Attitude: 1. Cognitive I am overloaded A description of or belief in the way things are Opinion / belief segment 2. Affective I hate this job More critical part of attitude Emotional or feeling segment of the attitude 3. Behavioral I am looking for another job Intention to behave in a certain way towards
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International Differences in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Job Quality Characteristics and Worker Satisfaction‚ 1989-2005 Jonathan H. Westover‚ Ph.D. Director of Academic Service Learning Assistant Professor of Management Woodbury School of Business Utah Valley University 800 W. University Parkway‚ MS-119 Orem‚ UT 84058-5999‚ USA. Abstract In this research‚ I apply and extend Handel’s (2005) model for understanding job characteristics and job satisfaction in the context of a changing global environment
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A PRELUDE TO JOB SATISFACTION Employee job satisfaction and retention has always been an issue to debate with regards to achieving a high level of productivity within an organization. Job satisfaction is best defined as a set of feelings and emotions employees associate with their work. It is an attitude which is inversely related to behaviors such as absenteeism and staff turnover. In theory‚ an organization with employees that display behaviors of high absenteeism and turnover as a result of
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