The role of organisational commitment and climate, occupational self efficacy, and perceived competencies volume 6 issue 2 cathie collinson, ross flett, jocelyn handy, judy brook, fiona alpass. Job satisfaction implies doing a job one enjoys, doing it well and being rewarded for ones efforts. Detailed analysis showed that the connection between job satisfaction and organisational performance is stronger than the connection between organisational performance and job satisfaction. Help organizations understand the importance of having the right people in the right position. Job satisfaction is the most frequently studied variable in organizational research because employers want to know how to avoid labor turnover and reward their best workers. A critical evaluation of job satisfaction levels during the transitional period of a merger. Job satisfaction further implies enthusiasm and happiness with ones work. A person with high level of job satisfaction holds positive feelings about the job, while a person who is dissatisfied with his her job holds negative feelings about the job. Introduction job satisfaction describes how content an individual is with his or her job. Effective and efficient leaders are shaped only from the well functioning of educational institutions. The sample of the study included 121employees and managers from organizations of abu dhabi. Job satisfaction is up, but still well below onetime highs. Keywords coping, organizational identification, adjustment, merger.
Puja agarwal 1department of management, cmj university, shillong india 2department of management, iipm, lucknow india 3department of management, wisdom school of management. Research article factors that affect employees job. Identifications mediatory role on communication and job. Investigating the impact of job satisfactiondissatisfaction. Job satisfaction is closely linked to that individuals behaviour in the work place davis et al. The relationship between job satisfaction, job performance. Because satisfied employees are considered to perform and stay loyal, the present paper examines the viewpoints in the literature regarding job satisfaction and delimits the need to address the variables which influence and explain the high and low satisfaction for the specific. Job satisfaction hits a 10year highbut its still below 50%.
Workers willingness to trade off one job aspect for another depends on the relative value workers assign to the different aspects. Ebrahim hasan al khajeh 2018, impact of leadership styles on job satisfaction, journal of human resources management research, vol. Stated another way, it is ones effective response to the job. To study about the various theories of job satisfaction 3. This study aims to undertake a concept analysis of job satisfaction in the nursing profession. The analysis of the perceived work environment suggests that recognition is a significant predictor of job satisfaction among public.
Accordingly, the purpose of the present article is to reexamine the state of the. Assuming other conditions were equal, an increase in autonomy. During any merger or acquisition effort, there are at least two groups of employees involved, often coming from organizations with distinctly different cultures and styles. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours. Manne 1965 argued that in a merger, the acquiring concern will be a corporation and not an individual, and the medium of exchange used to buy control will typically be shares of the acquiring company rather than cash.
It is generally perceived to be directly linked to productitivty as well as to personal wellbeing. The effects of job insecurity on employee safety outcomes. The majority of the studies conducted on job satisfaction are primarily built upon the needsbased. The satisfaction or utility that a worker receives from employment. The relationship of communication satisfaction, job satisfaction, and selfreported absenteeism by lindsay nicole ehlers the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between communication satisfaction of employees with coworkers, supervisors, and upper management, job satisfaction and selfreported absenteeism. This research examines 43 aspects of job satisfaction and 37 factors directly related to employee engagement. Job satisfaction is the outcome that up to what amount an employees work is considered as important and meaningful. Employees of a canadian financial institution n70 completed surveys approximately seven months after a merger. Job satisfaction and employee turnover intentions in total nigeria plc. The impact of pay and promotion on job satisfaction.
Relationship between job satisfaction and organisational. Organizing and controlling nurse schedule were the dominant factors affecting nurse job satisfaction level. Attitudes and beliefs may cause a person to work harder and perform better, or, the opposite may occur, and he or she may work less. A merger is the combination of two or more companies, generally by offering the. The aging of the european population is a demographic trend reflected in the evergrowing number of older employees. Hospital mergers have a small, transient positive impact on staff job satisfaction in the year immediately before and after merger approval. Job satisfaction is a workers sense of achievement and sucess on the job. Empirical evidence for alternatives to jdi introduction in recent times there has been a convergence of interest on the efforts by organizations to examine conditions that foster greater satisfaction with job.
The relationship between job satisfaction and time is a fundamental question in organizational behavior. The primary purpose of this article is to characterize the current level of job satisfaction among a nationally representative sample of state public health agency employees and to identify the factors that are correlated with high and low levels of satisfaction. The results indicated that there was significant correlation between the implementation of nurse scheduling management with all management functions on nurse job satisfaction level p. Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction is a measure of workers contentedness with their job.
Pdf job satisfaction and organizational performance. Nurse executive leadership during organizational mergers. The results highlight that employee age acts as the most powerfull predictor of job satisfaction. Job quality and job satisfaction be extended to other work aspects that matter for workers in addition to wages, such as hours, security, danger, and intrinsic interest. Higher job satisfaction scores were also associated with being classified as medical, dental, management or administrative staff and working in a mental health trust. It could be stated that job satisfaction determines. Ensuring job satisfaction is important for employers as it can reduce absenteeism and staff turnover and save costs on recruitment and retraining. Job satisfaction is important because a persons attitude and beliefs may affect his or her behavior. The impact of nurse scheduling management on nurses job. Determinants of job satisfaction a number of different theories have been used to explain job satisfaction.
A cluster analysis identified a group of individuals in whom relatively high levels of job satisfaction are nevertheless accompanied by proclivity for counterproductive behavior. Many people have defined job satisfaction over the years. Identification of variables affecting employee satisfaction. Counterproductive work behavior and job satisfaction. We expect that being good at your job leads to higher job satisfaction. This study has examined the effect of transformational and transactional leadership styles on job satisfaction in selected retail outlets of slough, united kingdom. Keith davis, job satisfaction is defined as favorableness or unfavorableness with which the employees view their. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional state, resulting from the appraisal of ones job experiences. According to the job characteristics theory, experiencing all the three states brings about internal motivation, growth satisfaction, job effectiveness and general satisfaction.
The impact of employee empowerment on job satisfaction. Factors that predict job satisfaction for rns in healthcare continue to be of great concern to nurse administrators and managers because job satisfaction remains an important aspect of nurse retention. A firmlevel perspective in this paper, i study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. In contrast to the organizations perspective on the relation of job satisfaction to productivity, vocational psychology views job satisfaction from the. Factors affecting employees job satisfaction in public. Anitha, a study on job satisfaction of paper mill employees with special reference to udumalpet and palani taluk, journal of management and science, vol. Im interested in the factors that affect peoples job satisfaction. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firms ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium.
The aim of this study was to explore the effect of transformational and transactional leadership styles on job satisfaction. It is concerned with such specific factors has wages, supervision, steadiness of employment, conditions of work, social relation of the job, prompt settlement of grievances. This paper introduces the importance of motivation and satisfaction in the workplace among age diverse employees in slovenian companies. Identification of variables affecting employee satisfaction and their impact on the organization 1alam sageer, 2dr. Thus, there were 150 articles for full text screening, after which there.
Impact of hospital mergers on staff job satisfaction. Job satisfaction thus is a set of favourable or unfavourable feelings and emotions with which employees view their work. Dec 12, 2014 higher job satisfaction scores were also associated with being classified as medical, dental, management or administrative staff and working in a mental health trust. Job satisfaction in relation to communication in health. A longitudinal investigation of coping processes during a. Stakeholders in the merger must contribute to the new system to support engagement and adoption. Hospital rn job satisfaction and nurse unions article.
Job satisfaction and morale among medical practitioners is a current concern worldwide. Contribution of the study the following are the contributions that this research study provides. List of books and articles about job satisfaction online. As with motivation, it is affected by the environment. Mitchell and lassen, 1987, there is a general consensus that job satisfaction is more deliberately researched topic. For the quantitative study we used survey, while focus group discussions fgds and indepth interviews idis were utilised for the qualitative study. Lagos international journal of humanities and social sciences, 214. The relationship between job satisfaction, job performance and employee engagement. Impact of employee merger satisfaction on organizational. Organizational commitment, job satisfaction and attitudes.
The purpose of this study was to investigate specific factors associated with job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in employees at the isfahan university hospitals iuhs in isfahan, iran. Job satisfaction is believed not to have a generally agreed definition despite of its significance and wide usage in the field of industrial psychology and organisational behaviour, which make it. The adapted questionnaire was administered to the employees of the retail outlets. P of organisational commitment job satisfaction and turnover. Empirical study of employee job satisfaction muhammad rizwan 1, waqas mehmood khan corresponding author2, hafiz muhammad aqeel tariq 3, abdul ghaffar 4, malik zubair anjum5, ehsan ullah bajwa 6 1 lecturer, department of management sciences the islamia university of bahawalpur pakistan. In sample 2, we find the best model fit is for job control being related to wlb, with wlb then predicting job satisfaction and affective commitment. Job satisfaction and retention of midwives in rural. Barriers and facilitators to successful hospital mergers health. The latest news, videos, and discussion topics on job satisfaction entrepreneur. Job satisfaction job satisfaction is a frequently studied variable in organisational behaviour research, and also a central variable in both research. Among the topics explored are career development, relationships with management.
In a competitive environment organizations are turning towards an important internal wealth, their employees. An explorative study received 15 december, 2015 revised 6 january, 2016 accepted 11 january, 2016 published 20 january, 2016 abdulwahab s. For the quantitative component a job satisfaction survey tool was developed to assess factors related to job satisfaction and retention of mss midwives who are still working in the scheme. Evidence from canadian credit union article pdf available in journal of organizational culture, communications and conflict 171. There have been various attempts to explain job satisfaction in different ways a reflection on these theories will show that in the discussion it is very difficult to consider motivation. Findings indicate that academics that produce more internationally accredited journals are relatively more job dissatisfied. Sep 01, 2017 job satisfaction is up, but still well below onetime highs workers pack and ship customer orders at the 750,000squarefoot amazon fulfillment center in romeoville, ill. Theories of job satisfaction job satisfaction has been treated as a complex set of variables. It also investigates the impacts of pharmaceutical type, work experience, age, and sex differences on the attitudes. Job satisfaction hits a 10year highbut its still below 50% survey shows many u.
Salaries are up, and so is the level of optimism for the future among it pros in k12 education. How career orientation shapes the job satisfactionturnover. During the literature search across a number of databases, a vast amount of articles. The impact of merger on the employees satisfaction in the higher education institutions proceedings of iser 8 th international conference, istanbul, turkey, 10 october 2015, isbn. Job performance, job satisfaction and motivation with the help of theoretical models and literatures. Portions of this article were presented at the 2000 west ern psychological. Thus, effectual functioning of any educational institutions depends on professional. Pdf job satisfaction of teachers velmurugan ramasamy.
Growth of a nation lay in the hands of great leaders. How career orientation shapes the job satisfactionturnover intention link. Articles on employee satisfaction management study guide. It focuses on the relative importance of job satisfaction factors and their impacts on the overall job satisfaction of employees. Job satisfaction is one criterion for establishing the health of an organisation. A study on influential factors of employee satisfaction based. Job satisfaction is the favorableness or unfavorableness with which employees view their work. It should not create any sense of job insecurity so communication in regards to such a venture needs to be communicated at all times so that staff feels they are part of the team. It is concerned with such specific factors has wages, supervision, steadiness of employment, conditions of work, social relation of the job. Most theories of human wellbeing and needs have achievement as a key component including selfdetermination theory and perma. However, little is known about which factors influence job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in hospital staff. Employees job satisfaction and performance to increase customers satisfactions, journal of human resources management research, vol.
Finally, problemfocused coping predicted higher levels of job satisfaction and identification with the merged organization time 2, whereas avoidance coping predicted lower identification. New identification has a mediatory role on the relationship between communication climate and job satisfaction. To study the relationship between worker attitude and job satisfaction. Employees job satisfaction and switching intention. Job satisfaction of the employees at the workplace neeraj kumari corresponding author lecturer, manav rachna international university, sector 43, faridabad, india. Articles on employee satisfaction employee satisfaction introduction employee satisfaction is a state where individuals look forward towards a long term association with the organization.
Linking employee satisfaction with productivity, performance, and customer satisfaction pdf. The main attributes of job satisfaction from this study are 1 fulfillment of desired needs within the work settings, 2 happiness or. Dar al uloom university, riyadh, kingdom of saudi arabia. Continuous staff support and management of staff expectations throughout a merger may help to increase staff job satisfaction during the challenging period of merger. Job satisfaction in a narrow sense means attitudes related to the job. Job satisfaction and associated factors among healthcare staff. Hospital merger, hospital restructuring, job satisfaction, event study, differenceindifference. Organizational commitment, job satisfaction and attitudes toward organizational change. Job satisfaction is the key ingridient that leads to recognition, income, promotion. Job satisfaction is the essential component for employee motivation and encouragement towards better performance. In addition, the notion of having unions for rns has also gained prominence on the national stage. In order to investigate the relationship, a quantitative research was conducted.
Pdf a study on the impact of job satisfaction on job. This study was conducted to examine the impact employee post merger satisfaction has on employee organizational commitment and turnover intentions. Pdf impact of hospital mergers on staff job satisfaction. Chen 1999, x ie 2001 conducted research on evaluation index system of es. Only job satisfaction scores 1 to 2 years before 0.
A study on the impact of job satisfaction on job performance of employees working in automobile industry, punjab, india. Jobs that are rich in positive behavioral elements such as autonomy, task identity, task significance and feedback contribute to. The study recommended that organisations needs to maintain its standard. Pdf job performance, job satisfaction and motivation. There is a fair amount of theoretical support for the claim that being good at your job will lead to higher job satisfaction. The study concerned work satisfaction and counterproductive behavior, organizational justice, stress at work and propensity for aggressive behavior. Employee satisfaction is a comprehensive reflection of personnels.
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