...DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH GROUP COHESION by Mark G. Resheske A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree With a Major in Applied Psychology-Industrial Organizational Concentration Approved: 4 Semester Credits __________________________________ Research Advisor: Dr. Mitchell Sherman The Graduate College University of Wisconsin-Stout May, 2001 1 The Graduate College University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751 ABSTRACT Resheske Mark G. A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH GROUP COHESION Applied Psychology American Psychological Association Dr. Mitchell Sherman (APA) 05/2001 48 pages___ Manual used in this study___ This study investigated job satisfaction among full time faculty of the College of Human Development at a Wisconsin University. The research method used an anonymous survey that was voluntarily completed and returned to the researcher. The population of the study was the full time faculty of the College of Human Development at UW-Stout. Thirty-six full time faculty members participated in the study. The UW Employee Satisfaction Survey was used to measure the level of job satisfaction. The results indicate that overall the faculty of the College of Human Development at UW-Stout are satisfied with their current employment. The study determined that group cohesion does play a role in overall job satisfaction. Measures of group...
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...Job Satisfaction In Registered Nurses: Survey Research Lindsey Rask July 30th, 2011 Job satisfaction within acute, community and public health nursing is imperative to the health care system as it directly affects the entire organization. In most health care settings, nurses hold the majority of positions, and replacement of an licensed personnel can be costly, time consuming, and difficult due to staff shortages. These factors are leading to a decrease in job satisfaction, as they are a major cause of burnout rates within the health care profession. The focus of this study is to explore the career plans, satisfaction levels and professional concerns of registered nurses (RNs), specifically within the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region. Through the use of a interviewed survey, this study will explore what significant number of nurses will choose to seek employment outside of nursing, shift to part-time positions, further their education in the nursing field, retire, or alter their career plans is some way. It will also look at what sort of turnover should be expected among nursing staff, if there is a perceived shortage of professionals in their field, and whether they would recommend nursing as a career to others. Nursing is the nation’s largest healthcare profession, with more than 3.1 million RNs nationwide. Of all licensed RNs, 2.6 million or 84.8 percent are employed in nursing, leaving about 500,000 licensed nurses that do not work in the...
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...Aziri B. mrp.ase.ro JOB SATISFACTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOL. 3 ISSUE 4 (2011) PP: 77-86 JOB SATISFACTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW Brikend AZIRI Faculty of Business and Economics, South East European University, Ilindenska 1200, Tetovo, Makedonia b.aziri@seeu.edu.mk Volume 3, Issue 4 / December 2011 Management Research and Practice Abstract Job satisfaction represents one of the most complex areas facing today’s managers when it comes to managing their employees. Many studies have demonstrated an unusually large impact on the job satisfaction on the motivation of workers, while the level of motivation has an impact on productivity, and hence also on performance of business organizations.Unfortunately, in our region, job satisfaction has not still received the proper attention from neither scholars nor managers of various business organizations. Keywords: job satisfaction. 1. DEFINITION AND IMPORTANCE OF JOB SATISFACTION Despite its vide usage in scientific research,as well as in everyday life,there is still no general agreement regarding what job satisfaction is. In fact there is no final definition on what job represents. Therefore before a definition on job satisfaction can be givven , the nature and importance of work as a universal human activity must be considered. Different authors have different approaches towards defining job satisfaction. Some of the most commonly cited definitions on job satisfaction are analysed in the text that folows...
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...JOB SATISFACTION AT EDUCATION A Study of Uniglobe College A Research Proposal Submitted to the Department of Research, Uniglobe College, (Pokhara University affiliate) in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor in Bachelor in Business Administration By Dipa Shrestha Uniglobe College July 2011 Table of Contents Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Statement of Problem 4 1.3 Objective of the study 4 1.4 Organization of the study 5 Chapter 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 6 Chapter 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 7 REFERENCES 8 JOB SATISFACTION AT EDUCATION CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Teaching is a noble and an extraordinary complex activity involving a range of skills, perceptions, attitudes, knowledge and sensitivity. Here, teachers must be more than mere technical or subject experts. A teacher’s growth is reflected in his or her attitude, philosophy, values, belief, interests and job satisfaction. Education is the major instrument to change and has significant task of preparing leaders for different walks of life-social, political, cultural, and scientific and so on. They play key role in the generation, transfer and application of new knowledge. The intellectual dynamism, resourcefulness and economic prosperity of any nation are reflected in the quality of its teachers and education. The challenge of the twenty first century is a challenge to survive as institutions of quality of excellence...
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...EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES AND JOB SATISFACTION Lise M. Saari and Timothy A. Judge This article identifies three major gaps between HR practice and the scientific research in the area of employee attitudes in general and the most focal employee attitude in particular—job satisfaction: (1) the causes of employee attitudes, (2) the results of positive or negative job satisfaction, and (3) how to measure and influence employee attitudes. Suggestions for practitioners are provided on how to close the gaps in knowledge and for evaluating implemented practices. Future research will likely focus on greater understanding of personal characteristics, such as emotion, in defining job satisfaction and how employee attitudes influence organizational performance. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. “Happy employees are productive employees.” “Happy employees are not productive employees.” We hear these conflicting statements made by HR professionals and managers in organizations. There is confusion and debate among practitioners on the topic of employee attitudes and job satisfaction— even at a time when employees are increasingly important for organizational success and competitiveness. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide greater understanding of the research on this topic and give recommendations related to the major practitioner knowledge gaps. As indicated indirectly in a study of HR professionals (Rynes, Colbert, & Brown, 2002), as well as based on our experience, the major...
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...MARKETING RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF GENDER DIFFRENCES ON JOB SATISFACTION, MENTAL HEALTH AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG BANKING EMPLOYEES (Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the course Marketing Research) Submitted To: | Submitted By: | Dr Shalini Trivedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Amity Business School, Amity University. | Disha Arora B-39Harpreet Kaur B-34Mansi Nigam B-30Payal Saxena B 28Shobhna Swati B-32 | | | Amity Business School, Amity University Declaration I hereby declare that the project work entitled “THE IMPACT OF GENDER DIFFRENCES ON JOB SATISFACTION, MENTAL HEALTH AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG BANKING EMPLOYEES” submitted to the Amity University, NOIDA, is a record of an original work done by me under the guidance of Ms. SHALINI TRIVEDI, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Amity Business School, Amity University, and this project work is submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration. The results embodied in this thesis have not...
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...Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study For the last few decades job satisfaction has been one of the most popular interests among scientists, researchers and practitioners. According to Spector job satisfaction is the most frequently studied variable in organization research. Job satisfaction was proved too be an important construct in emotional and psychological employees’ well being. It is a significant element related to good organizational functioning as well. Although, the phenomenon of job satisfaction has been broadly researched, still there are several problematic areas. First of all, the concept of job satisfaction has been described in various ways by a number of researchers. Lawler states that “overall job satisfaction is determined by the difference between all those things a person feels he should received from his job and all those things he actually does receive”. Locke defines job satisfaction as “the pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job as achieving or facilitating the achievement of one’s job values. Spector describes job satisfaction as “the extent to which people like (satisfaction) or dislike (dissatisfaction) their jobs”. Apart of those few definitions indicated above, there are many others that aim to explain the concept of the satisfaction. The lack of consensus which appears in defining the concept may lead to misunderstanding among researchers and research participants and may influence the construct validity of its...
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...Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Literature review…………………………………………………………………………………..6 Research methodology…………………………………………………………………………….9 Data Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………….13 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….21 References………………………………………………………………………………………..23 Abstract The aim of this research was to examine ways to improve employees’ satisfaction in order to increase their efficiency at work. Research articles from 2008 to 2010 were reviewed. Previous study found that variables such as collective efficacy, organizational commitment are positively related to job satisfaction. However, stress is a variable negatively related with job satisfaction. The study focused its research on the grocery store Bi Lo. Participants were interviewed to answer question of a survey about employees ‘satisfaction. The results showed that job satisfaction can center on organizational commitment, team acceptance, how one values their job and work ethic, and their personal characteristics such as age, gender and sex. Key word: Stress, Employees satisfaction, Collective Efficacy Introduction Aims and objectives The aim of the study is improve Bi Lo revenue through the employee’s satisfaction at work. The objective is to increase workers commitment and efficiency. It is very important for organizations to spend time understanding the needs and...
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...influences job satisfaction in academic studies that can give advantage to human resource department in their practical researches. This study focus on to enlighten the public and private academic institution on the level of job satisfaction and work commitment of staff that depend on several factor. This research will offer some theory messages for the academic institution about importance of job satisfaction for employees. In addition, this research would provide valuable information to management of institution by understanding the factor that affect job satisfaction. This study will give benefit to academic staff which their management can identify this to distinguish...
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...Motivation and Job Satisfaction Research THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK MOTIVATION AND JOB SATISFACTION Nadia Ayub Department of Business Psychology Shagufta Rafif Department of Management College of Business Management, Karachi Abstract Numerous researchers investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and work motivation in diversified professions but none investigated bank managers in Pakistan. Therefore, the current study attempts to explore the relationship between work motivation and job satisfaction. Based on the literature review two hypotheses were formulated 1) There will be positive relationship between work motivation and job satisfaction, and 2) There would be a gender difference on the variable of work motivation and job satisfaction. To asses job satisfaction, “Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS; Spector, 1997)”, and for motivation, “Motivation at Work Scale (MAWS, Gagné, M., et.al, 2010)”, were used. The sample of the study consists of 80 middle managers (46 males; 34 females) from different banks of Karachi, Pakistan. A Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was calculated for the correlation between the work motivation and job satisfaction. In order to find out gender differences t test was computed. In conclusion, the findings of the study suggest that there was a positive correlation between work motivation and job satisfaction. Furthermore, there was a significant gender difference on the variable of work motivation and job satisfaction. Keywords:...
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...SAN BEDA COLLEGE Graduate School of Business Buenaflor, Kricia Angela M Business Research Methods (Writeshop) Title: Impact of Organizational Climate on Job Satisfaction among Academic Staff in Metro, Manila Part I: INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2.1 General context of the problem Despite these scattered efforts on job satisfaction among Academic Employee in the Metro Manila, there is a gap of research on the subject interest in Metro, Manila. Importantly in relation to their organizational climate, therefore, why this study is considered necessary at this time. 1.2.2 Description of the situation by which problem arose and developed. An earlier study by Kestetner (1994) showed that almost half of new educators leave the field during the first five years of their employment. This is expected to be of great concern to all employees because unhappy and dissatisfied employees may translate into poor performance and high staff turnover. 1.2 Initial Review of Related Literature (Five Gurus) 1.2.1 Previous studies’ results and findings related to the problem 1. Research has increasingly examined a global index representing a single strategically focused climate (e.g. a climate for service or a climate for safety) or has focused on a set of climate dimensions (Ostroff et al., 2007) 2. Studies have tended to focus on either psychological or organizational climate on individual outcomes. This is an important omission because...
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...Employee productivity and job Satisfaction Research Project MSA 699 Sabrina Foster Central Michigan University Table of Contents Pages Number List of Tables List of Figures Chapter 1 Problem Definition 3 Chapter 2 Literature Review 6 Chapter 3 Research methodology 11 References 15 Appendix A Survey instructions 17 Survey/Interview Questions Chapter 1 Problem Definition Background Express is a fashion forward retail store with multiple locations worldwide. A unique fashion powerhouse selling both men and women clothing with over 30 years experience. (Express.com, 2014) “Express is not about a single point in time, but rather a spirit energy, and a belief that we can and will be the best retail fashion brand in the world” says Chairman and CEO Michael Weiss. (Express.com, 2014) Express associated with Limited brands, which are responsible for stores such as Bath and body works, Victoria’s Secret and The Limited. (Express.com, 2014) Leaving them with a rich brand history of success. The company has values they follow which have contributed to its success. These values are; do the right thing and do things right, begin and end with our customer in mind, passion with a purpose and performance matters. (Express.com, 2014) Employees working at Express are exceptional at creating a shopping experience similar to dining at a five star restaurant. From...
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...e-ISSN: 2278-487X, p-ISSN:2319-7668, PP 29-35 www.iosrjournals.org Empirical study of Employee job Satisfaction Muhammad Rizwan 1, Waqas Mehmood Khan (Corresponding Author)2, Hafiz Muhammad Aqeel Tariq 3, Abdul Ghaffar 4, Malik Zubair Anjum5, Ehsan Ullah Bajwa 6 2 Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences – The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (Pakistan) , 3, 4, 5,6Student, Department of Management Sciences – The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (Pakistan) 1 Abstract: The main objective of this research report is to find the crucial problems, faced by the employees while working in organizations and find the ways how we make our employees loyal with their organization. The purpose of this research is to elaborate the key factors which are useful for the satisfaction of the employees i.e. workplace environment, reward and recognition, training and development and team work. These factors help to make the policies effective and through this effectiveness, efficiency takes place in the management process. This research paper is based on theoretical considerations, a model was proposed linking the employee job satisfaction (EJS) constructs. The survey was conducted in 2012 and covered 200 employees within the territory of Punjab in Pakistan. Through this survey we find a strong positive relationship between team work and all other factors.. Keywords: Employee job satisfaction, workplace environment, Reward and Recognition, Teamwork, Training and development I. Introduction: ...
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...unmotivated and unhappy in their jobs. According to research by Investors in People in 2017 1 in 3 UK workers are not happy in their current jobs and 1 in 4 are actively searching for a new job. Job satisfaction has become increasingly important in the workplace, a high job satisfaction can lead to higher motivation and higher productivity in employees. Cropanzano and Wright (2001) found that less happy employees are more sensitive to threats and are more defensive around co-workers, this could lead to fallings out with co-workers and could affect the performance of team working tasks with in the workplace. Employers are starting to realise the importance of job satisfaction...
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...INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH, BHOPAL Winter Project On “Job Satisfaction with reference to Compensation” “A Study of Nationalized and Private Bank” Submitted for the Partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Post Graduation Diploma in Management in Human Resource Department Submitted To: Prof. Amit Tiwari HRM Faculty, IPER Submitted By: Pooja Tekwani Trim 2, 2012-2014 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My liabilities are too copious to enumerate, but the most worthy after ought to undoubtedly be declared. I profoundly spread my gratitude to Dr Suchi , my research escort for her insightful and helping ways across this particular research and all those learned suggestions. I additionally thank all the teachers of Amity, who have gave a lot to my research work. Lastly, I express my thankfulness and spread my appreciation for all those subjects who participated in my whole research to discover and I express my heartfelt cheers to the congregation of passion for upholding me in all ways. Sonia Harchandani Date: - MBA. 2014-2015 Semester 2 PREFACE This project report is related to the “Job Satisfaction w.r.f to Compensation”, “A Study of Nationalized and Private Bank”. ...
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