study of job-related attitudes. OB specifically focuses on three attitudes: job satisfaction, job involvement and organizational commitment Job satisfaction In the field of OB, job satisfaction is one of the most important and widely studied attitudes. Job satisfaction refers to an individual 's general attitude towards his or her job. It has been described by Edwin A. Locke as the pleasurable or positive emotional state that results when an individual evaluates his job or job experience. Job satisfaction
employment relations. Effective employment relations strategies will help reduce the impact of change on the workforce and result in a smooth implementation. Qantas is an example of a business that identified a need for improve effectiveness to better build employee’s motivation and more productivity. The indicator of effectiveness is: High staff turn over High levels of absenteeism Accidents Poor customer service Disputes and internal conflict Absenteeism is refers to employee absence on
Employee Attitude and Satisfaction in a Prison Name Course Professor's Name Date of Submission Employee Attitude and Satisfaction in a Prison: As a new warden at a large prison in America, I have noticed that the prison is plagued with several physical quarrels and gang loyalties that are divided along racial lines. In addition, the prison staff has had several problems that are related to racial identity as evident in staff arrangement based on racial groups during a turnout before shift-change
Morse (1997) “Satisfaction refers to the level of fulfillment of one’s needs, wants and desire. Satisfaction depends on what an individual wants from the world, and what he gets.” Employee satisfaction is a measure of how happy workers are with their job and working environment. It is undeniable that there are many different factors affecting organizational effectiveness, and one of them is employee satisfaction. Also, it is said that a satisfied employee is a productive employee, so every company
contribution. One of the things that should be the primary concern of the company is the job satisfaction of their employees, because the employees in the work they do not feel comfortable, under-appreciated, can not develop all their potential, then automatically the employee unable to focus and concentrate fully on the job . Employee job satisfaction by Hariadja (2002) it can be seen that "the job is not just doing a job, but also related to other aspects such as interacting with co-workers, superiors
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AS CORRELATE OF ABSENTEEISM AT WORK STATION INTRODUCTION All organizations, be it business, educational or government are social systems. These are run by people, Example: Industrial organization, is a combination of men, money, machinery, material and management. The functioning of an organization depends upon how people work or behave in the organization. The scientific management came into existence to focus on behavioural aspects of management. Failure of scientific
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
WORKERS WORK HARDER? The effect of job satisfaction on work performance Michael Argyle In: Ruut Veenhoven (ed), (1989) How harmfull is happiness? Consequences of enjoying life or not, Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN nr. 90 257 22809 Summary Opinions about the consequences of happiness on work differ. There is no research on the effects of life-satisfaction on productivity but there is a lot of research on the link between job satisfaction and work performance. This research
reliance of dependent variable i.e. job satisfaction on several manipulated variables (motivation, stress, working conditions, etc.). Job satisfaction describes how content an individual is with his or her job. There are several factors that influence person’s level of job satisfaction. Some of these factors include the fairness of the promotion system within an organization, stress factor, the quality of the working conditions, leadership and social relationships, the job itself (the variety of tasks involved
words Abstract We review the case study completed by Elizabeth Layman (2011) and review how principles of goal setting are applied, how the principles of job enrichment are applied, and what were some of the outcomes of job enrichment in the HIS Departments covered in this case? Additionally we explore the impact of job enrichment on motivation and communication in the HIS Departments as covered by this case? Analysis of Elizabeth Layman 's case study (2011) Multiple