Some job surveys indicate that older workers are more satisfied with their jobs than younger workers. The higher job satisfaction among older employees may be due to the perks that come with maintaining a long career‚ including higher salaries‚ better benefits and success in the workplace. Conference Board Survey A 2010 survey of 2‚900 people commissioned by the Conference Board research firm indicates that all Americans are increasingly unhappy with their jobs no matter their age. However‚ "Washington
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Job Satisfaction subject: Org. Behavior Do people really like their jobs? Definitely‚ everyone knows from the news about dissatisfied workers going on strike or even acting violently toward their supervisors‚ directors‚ but overall people are quite satisfied with their jobs. According to the surveys percentage of satisfied people averages in the US is about 85 percent. The feelings‚ reflecting attitudes toward one’s job‚ are known as job satisfaction. Settings‚ related to the personnel job satisfaction
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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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satisfying job? Observations: Characteristics of the 4 jobs were quite similar. John Bishop: good stable job‚ irregular long hours (90 to 100- hour work week)‚ no complaints‚ willing to take things to the extreme Irene Tse :good stable job‚ long hours (80 - hour work week)‚ no complaints‚ willing to take things to the extreme and highly motivated Tony Kurz : good stable job‚ long irregular hours‚ constant travels‚ highly satisfied with job‚ prefers job more to personal relationships David
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Job Satisfaction - Introduction The father of scientific management Taylor ’s (1911) approach to job satisfaction was based on a most pragmatic & essentially pessimistic philosophy that man is motivation by money alone. That the workers are essentially ’stupid & phlegmatic ’ & that they would be satisfied with work if they get higher economic benefit from it. But with the passage of time Taylor ’s solely monetary approach has been changed to a more humanistic approach. It has come a
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their jobs‚ employers’ at large companies begin to wonder what went wrong. In order to answer that question‚ one would have to look at the causes of high job satisfaction as well as causes of low employee turnover rates. Benefits and high profits are key essentials when it comes to having a high job satisfaction among the company’s employees and a low turnover rate. Three high-profile companies should be a great measuring stick in order to see if there is a correlation between high job satisfaction
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like their jobs? Definitely‚ everyone knows from the news about dissatisfied workers going on strike or even acting violently toward their supervisors‚ directors‚ but overall people are quite satisfied with their jobs. A Conference Board study found that 58.6 percent of Americans were satisfied with their jobs in 1995. By the year 2000‚ that percentage was down to 50.7. But in Uzbekistan (the country of Central Asia where I was born)‚ people generally aren’t satisfied with their job. The reason
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[pic] IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON JOB SATISFACTION OF LECTURERS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF UiTM (PERAK) AZMAWANIE BINTI AZMI NURLIYANA BINTI CHE ANOUR SARAH BINTI IDILFITRI SITI NUR FATIMAH BINTI MANAP FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DATE OF SUBMISSION: JULY 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Our thanks go firstly to our beloved lecturer‚ Dr Hayati bin Jalal for all her words of wisdom‚ continuous support and encouragement for us
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to study the relationship among factors influencing the hotel staff in Thailand’s intention to quit using the structural equation model gained from the review of related literature. The factors included quality of work life‚ perceived organizational culture‚ job satisfaction‚ organizational commitment and intention to quit. The population was the hotel staff in Thailand of which 908 were selected as subjects. The instrument used was a questionnaire with the reliability between 0.614-0.918. The
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