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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]
In the original paper, the authors stated that research had shown low job satisfaction is related to turnover. For example, one meta-analysis cited in the original paper found that there was a correlation of -.19 between job satisfaction and employee turnover. [8] This prior research to the authors’ first hypothesis (deterioration), which states:
Management plays an important role in an employee's job satisfaction and happiness. [52] Good leadership can empower employees to work better towards reaching the organisation's goals. [53] For example, if a leader is considerate, the employees will tend to develop a positive attitude towards management and thus, work more effectively. [54]
Affective events theory model Research model. Affective events theory (AET) is an industrial and organizational psychology model developed by organizational psychologists Howard M. Weiss (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Russell Cropanzano (University of Colorado) to explain how emotions and moods influence job performance and job satisfaction. [1]
Job satisfaction has been found to be an important area of research because one of the top reasons individuals give for leaving a job is dissatisfaction. [ 8 ] Much of the literature on the relationship between commitment and satisfaction with one's job indicates that if employees are satisfied they develop stronger commitment to their work.
Allen, Herst, Bruck, and Sutton (2000) [6] describe in their paper three categories of consequences related to WFC: work-related outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction or job performance), nonwork-related outcomes (e.g., life or family satisfaction), and stress-related outcomes (e.g., depression or substance abuse). For example, WFC has been shown to ...
Quality of working life (QWL) describes a person's broader employment-related experience.Various authors and researchers have proposed models of quality of working life – also referred to as quality of worklife – which include a wide range of factors, sometimes classified as "motivator factors" which if present can make the job experience a positive one, and "hygiene factors" which if ...
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 assessments of specific job facets, such as pay, conditions, opportunities and other aspects of a particular job. [3]