THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION‚ JOB SATISFACTION AND CORPORATE CULTURE by WANDA ROOS submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in the subject PSYCHOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA SUPERVISOR: MS R VAN EEDEN JUNE 2005 Student number: 3381-990-4 I declare that The relationship between employee motivation‚ job satisfaction and corporate culture is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated
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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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The major causes of job satisfaction‚ how does job satisfaction impact productivity‚ absenteeism and turnover and how employee satisfaction is related to customer satisfaction in organizations. Job satisfaction is described as a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristic (Essentials of Organizational Behavior 10 edition‚ Stephen Robbins/Timothy Judge). According to Locke and Lathan (1976) the definition of job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional
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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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Job Satisfaction Abstract The issue of Job Satisfaction‚ Motivation in the workplace and the role of Job Characteristics have been the cause of intensive research for many years now and have given rise to many theories‚ formed on the basis of extended research by psychologists‚ social scientists and HRD managers. The concept of job satisfaction‚ though of considerably recent origin‚ is closely linked to motivation in the workplace and is a causal factor in improved performance in the workplace
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AB1601 Organizational Behavior & Design Semester 2‚ AY 2012/13 COVER PAGE Full Name: Loh Qi Hui Joan Matriculation Number: U1210649F Seminar Group Number: 03 Seminar Group Instructor: Professor Don Willis Assignment: Critical Thinking Date: 22 February 2013 Word Count: 1505 Assignment Submission Declaration
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MOBILINK Use goals and feedback: Mobilink consider that employees should have hard but realistic‚ specific goals‚ as well as feedback on how well they are faring in pursuit of those goals. Mobilink have shift work and therefore they know that the job characteristics are very important in order to motivate employees and they work a lot with this issue. The managers in the Mobilink has to give daily feedback to their employees and listen to conversations on what to improve MOBILINk Allow employees
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Methods to measure job satisfaction It is very important for companies that their employees are satisfied and happy with their job‚ because this leads to a higher working morale. This again leads to a higher output and performance of the workers as well as lower overall costs‚ which is profitable for the company. So everybody benefits from a positive working atmosphere. There are a various number of ways how employers can measure the job satisfaction of their employees. The most common ways are:
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pportunity for Advancement Employees are more satisfied with their current job if they see a path available to move up the ranks in the company and be given more responsibility and along with it higher compensation. Many companies encourage employees to acquire more advanced skills that will lead to the chance of promotion. Companies often pay the cost of tuition for employees taking university courses‚ for example. During an employee’s annual performance review‚ a supervisor should map out a path
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Myer and Allen (1997). Job satisfaction and employees’ attitude have an effect to the capacity and productivity at the workplace directly. People who are very satisfied with their job often work greater effective or lack of absenteeism‚ quitting job and late for work or lethargy. In Vietnam‚ thank to profound globalization‚ people has especially cared about diversity in organization’s culture and doing many researches to understand more about the level of job satisfaction and attitudes toward work
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