EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION….
As explained by Locke in 1976, job satisfaction or employee
satisfaction is an enjoyable or optimistic emotional level that occurs from the
evaluation of a person’s employment or employment experience.
It means job satisfaction is an attitude and self-motivating a feeling which an employee feels about his or her employment.
Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction plays a major role
in an organizational context since, efficiency, quality of work, profitability,
productivity, employee commitment and as well as organizational success depend
on the same.
In an employee’s view, job satisfaction is important in areas
such as salaries, employment stability, recognition, career development,
rewards, healthy work-life balance, etc. In an employer’s view, employee
satisfaction is essential since factors such as employment contribution,
organizational performances, sustainability, retention and employee turnover
are depending on the same. According to the findings of Hulin and Judge in
2003,
Affective Satisfaction –
The priority where a job holds in an individual’s life associated with emotions and feelings.
Job Satisfaction
Cognitive Satisfaction-
Direct satisfactions of employment such as
salaries, benefits, promotions etc.
Various studies have been conducted by researchers and
scholars regarding the concept of job satisfaction and among them, according to
the Motivation-Hygiene theory (two-factor theory) which was introduced by
Fredrick Herzberg in 1959, people are influenced by two types of factors for
job satisfaction and they are Motivating factors and Hygiene factors.
MOTIVATION FACTORS HYGIENE FACTORS
Achievement Salary
Level of job satisfaction
increase due to motivational factors where poor hygiene factors may decrease
the job satisfaction level of employees. A combination of these two factors is
needed for a healthy job satisfaction level.
Most of the organizations measure the level of job satisfaction of its
employees with the use of methods such as structured questionnaires,
interviews, gathering of information from randomly selected groups, etc. with
the careful and proper analysis of results collected, organizations will be
able to understand the problems behind the employee dissatisfactions and
effective, speedy steps have to be taken in order to increase the level of
employee satisfaction since satisfied and committed workforce create an
unmeasurable as well as inimitable value to an organization towards the
achievement of desired goals.
"Employee satisfaction" is the term used to describe whether employees are happy and fulfilling their desires and needs at work. 👔
ReplyDeleteMany measures purport that employee satisfaction is a factor in employee motivation, employee goal achievement, and positive employee morale in the workplace. 🏆
"Employee satisfaction" is the term used to describe whether employees are happy and fulfilling their desires and needs at work.
ReplyDeleteMany measures purport that employee satisfaction is a factor in employee motivation, employee goal achievement, and positive employee morale in the workplace.
ReplyDeleteEmployee satisfaction, while generally a positive in your organization, can also become a problem if mediocre employees stay because they are satisfied and happy with your work environment.
ReplyDeleteEmployee satisfaction in an organization depends on whether an employee receives what they expect from a job.
ReplyDeleteFactors contributing to employee satisfaction include treating employees with respect, providing regular employee recognition, empowering employees, offering above industry-average benefits and compensation, providing employee perks and company activities, and positive management within a success framework of goals, measurements, and expectations.
ReplyDeleteThe critical factor with employee satisfaction is that satisfied employees must do the job and make the contributions that the employer needs. If they don't, all that the employer does to provide an environment that satisfies employees is for naught.
ReplyDeleteHappy, satisfied and productive employees are an asset for an organization. It is hard to achieve organizational goals with unmotivated and discouraged people and employers should take necessary steps to keep their employees satisfied for higher productivity.
ReplyDeleteEmployee satisfaction or job satisfaction is one of the key goals of all HR personnel irrespective of what their individual KRAs are. A satisfied employee is not just a retained employee but an ambassador for the brand, internally and externally
ReplyDeleteIt is important to satisfy employees through effective job design. Do you agree?
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Effective job designing and positioning is important to increase the employee satisfaction.
DeleteIn my point of view, "Employee satisfaction" is a key factor which affects that determines things such as Employee turnover, retention within an organization etc. Hence an organization must take actions to have employee satisfaction through methods such as incentives, rewards, etc.
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