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Job satisfaction, employee satisfaction or work satisfaction is a measure of workers' contentment with their job, whether they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. [ 1] Job satisfaction can be measured in cognitive (evaluative), affective (or emotional), and behavioral components. [ 2]
The dispositional approach, which attributes job satisfaction to internal, stable personality traits, and; The interactionist approach, which attributes job satisfaction to an interaction between situational and dispositional factors. The situational and interactionist approaches had received a majority of the support in previous literature.
Two-factor theory. The two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction, all of which act independently of each other. It was developed by psychologist Frederick ...
Job performance is a consistent and important outcome of core self-evaluations (CSE). The concept of core self-evaluations was first examined by Judge, Locke, and Durham (1997) as a dispositional predictor of job satisfaction, and involves four personality dimensions; locus of control, neuroticism, self-efficacy, and self-esteem.
The Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) is an introspective psychological inventory consisting of 24 items pertaining to an individual's Psychological Capital (PsyCap), or positive psychological state of development. [1] [2] The PCQ was constructed by Fred Luthans, Bruce J. Avolio, and James B. Avey with the goal to assess the dimensions ...
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI) is a pseudoscientific [5] self-report questionnaire that claims to indicate differing "psychological types" (often commonly called "personality types"). The test assigns a binary value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or ...
A job attitude is a set of evaluations of one's job that constitute one's feelings toward, beliefs about, and attachment to one's job. [1] Overall job attitude can be conceptualized in two ways. Either as affective job satisfaction that constitutes a general or global subjective feeling about a job, [2] or as a composite of objective cognitive ...
His 1976 chapter on job satisfaction continues to be one of the most highly-cited pieces of work in the field." [1] Locke is a proponent of global capitalism, [2] was personally acquainted with the philosopher Ayn Rand, and is affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute. He is also a critic of the concept of emotional intelligence. [3]