BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Job Satisfaction
- the sense of fulfillment and pride felt by people who enjoy their work and do it well. Various factors influence job satisfaction, and our understanding of the significance of these stems in part from Frederick Herzberg. He called elements such as remuneration, working relationships, status, and job security "hygiene factors" because they concern the context in which somebody works. Hygiene factors do not in themselves promote job satisfaction, but serve primarily to prevent job dissatisfaction. Motivators contribute to job satisfaction and include achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, advancement, and growth. An absence of job satisfaction can lead to poor motivation, stress, absenteeism, and high labor turnover.
Additional Resources
- Increasing Job Satisfaction
- There is a big difference between temporary and permanent job dissatisfaction. If the situation is only temporary, you can take steps to improve your level of satisfaction. Otherwise, it may be time for a serious career reorientation.Poor levels of job satisfaction are linked to stress, and in extreme situations, burnout....
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Employer Perceptions about Job Satisfaction Factors Do Not Match Employee Reality; Salary.com Survey Reveals Disconnects Between Employers' Perceptions of Employee Job Satisfaction Factors and Why Employees Stay or Leave a Job
- NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Salary.com, the compensation solutions experts, today released results from the 2005/2006 Employee Satisfaction and Retention Survey. The survey revealed surprising disparities between what employees value and what human resource HR professionals perceive to be important to overall employee job satisfaction and willingness to stay in or leave...
- Research articles 2006-01-30
- NetPro DEC 2007 Survey Provides Insights on the Job Satisfaction of Directory & Identity IT Pros
- NetPro Computing, Inc. today announced the availability of a new report that focuses on the Job Satisfaction of Directory and Identity IT professionals. Using results gathered from NetPro's fifth Directory Services and Identity and Access survey conducted at the Directory Experts Conference DEC 2007 in Las Vegas in April,...
- Research articles 2007-09-05
- Thank God it's Monday. (job satisfaction seminar sponsored by Industry Week to be held on CompuServe)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 How can we humanize the workplace to bring out greater creativity and increase job satisfaction? Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith, coauthors of Thank God It's Monday, will host a special seminar for INDUSTRYWEEK ... 00-00-0000 How can we humanize the workplace to...
- Research articles 1997-03-03
- The effects of high performance work practices on job satisfaction in the United States steel industry.
- A unique data set is used to examine how different practices associated with high performance work systems in the steel industry affect the job satisfaction of workers. While the effect of these practices on organizational performance is widely studied, fA unique data set is used to examine how different practices...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- Surveys: IT job satisfaction plummets to all-time low
- Computerworld - The recession and its accompanying reorganizations, layoffs and corporate turns to outsourcing have been corrosive to IT employee job satisfaction. And that job dissatisfaction is increasing concerns among many employment experts that key employees may leave current jobs as soon as they get what they perceive is a...
- News items 2010-01-11
- Job satisfaction levels high
- A SURVEY CONDUCTED by Career(Builder, an online recruitment source, found that after a period of steady decline, levels of job satisfaction and job security are showing improvement. CareerBuilder surveyed more than 1,300 U.S. workers in Pulse of the Worker: May 2002, and found that job satisfaction increased from 61...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Health Care Reform and Job Satisfaction of Primary Health Care Physicians in Lithuania
- The aim of this research paper is to study job satisfaction of physicians and general practitioners at primary health care institutions during the health care reform in Lithuania. The paper concludes that the total job satisfaction of doctors working at primary health care establishments in Lithuania is relatively low, and...
- White papers 2005-03-07
- New HHS Report On Registered Nurses Sheds Light on National Shortage; Low Job Satisfaction and Low Pay Underlying Causes
- WASHINGTON, March 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two compelling explanations for the shortage of registered nurses in the nation's hospitals - low job satisfaction and low pay - can be found deep inside a 126 page report released late last month by the U.S. DepartWASHINGTON, March 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two...
- Research articles 2002-03-11
- Lower Job Satisfaction Prompts Year-End Decline in Worker Confidence
- The Hudson Employment IndexSM fell 2.6 points to 102.7 in December, primarily as a result of lowered job satisfaction and increased job loss concerns. The monthly measure lost ground following a nearly four-point rise in November. It also fell short of last December's 103.4 Index. Despite the...
- Research articles 2007-01-03
- IT Job Satisfaction and Morale on the Rise, Finds IDG's Computerworld in ''Best Places to Work in IT'' Survey; Offshoring Also Increasing, According to 12th Annual Ranking of Top 100 IT Workplaces
- FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Under header Computerworld's Top 10 Best Places to Work in IT dated June 27, 2005, #7 should read: Securian Financial Group sted Minnesota Life Insurance Company. The corrected release reads: IT JOB SATISFACTION AND MORALE ON THE RISE, FINDS IDG'S COMPUTERWORLD IN ''BEST PLACES TO...
- Research articles 2005-06-30
- Perseus Development Corp. Offers Free Comparative Job Satisfaction Survey to Human Resources Executives
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BRAINTREE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 28, 2003 Perseus Development Corporation, an industry leader in web-based survey research, software and services, is offering a free web survey and analysis to human resources executives for the purpose of obtaining job satisfaction feedback from their employees. Companies will have the...
- Research articles 2003-01-28
- Higher Stress Costing Job Satisfaction in U.S. Companies; 2006 Survey Reveals Generational Differences, Employment Issues and Productivity Perceptions
- ATLANTA -- The signs of a stressed workforce are showing in the U.S., according to Randstad's 2006 Employee Review, conducted by Harris InteractiveR. Pressures at work are escalating, thereby decreasing employees' job satisfaction while increasing their expectations of employer leadership. Employees want opportunities for career development, an improved work/life balance...
- Research articles 2006-07-24
- Salary, Career Growth Top Contributors To Job Satisfaction For Healthcare IT Professionals, Finds New Study
- CHICAGO, May 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- For healthcare information technology professionals, salary and opportunities for growth are key to evaluating satisfaction at work, according to the findings of a recent survey released today by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society HIMSS and Hersher Associates, Ltd. Sixty-two percent of survey...
- Research articles 2002-05-09
- An Empirical Study of Organizational Justice as a Mediator of the Relationships among Leader-Member Exchange and Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intentions in the Lodging Industry
- The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of interpersonal working relationships on employees' justice perceptions and the effects of those perceptions on employees' work-related attitudes and behavior in the hospitality industry. This study examined the mediating role played by distributive and procedural justice in linking leader-member exchange...
- White papers 2000-04-27
- Workforce Management Solution Transforms the Company's High-Volume Call Center: Solution Improves Call Center Responsiveness, Agents' Job Satisfaction
- Belgium's leading global telecom service provider had to improve its Directory Information Service's DIS aging workforce management system. EDS implemented a solution that dramatically reduced average call response times, enabled call centers to handle more calls without increasing staff and boosted employee job satisfaction. EDS began by implementing VisualFMS, the...
- Case studies
- Exploring The Socio-Technical Dimension Of Information System Development: Use Cases And Job Satisfaction
- Socio-technical design is an established technique in the information system development repertoire with a strong provenance in the Mumford's work on ETHICS (Effective Technical and Human Implementation of Computer-Based Systems) and the participatory design tradition in Scandinavia. Although there has been wide acceptance of the need for socio-technical design in...
- White papers 2003-06-05
- Computerworld 19th Annual Salary Survey Finds Modest Increase in IT Salaries in '05; Three-Percent Cost-of-Living Increase Offset by Larger Bonuses and High Rate of Job Satisfaction among Information Technologists
- FRAMINGHAM, Mass -- Computerworld, the "Voice of IT Management," has published the results of its 19th annual Salary Survey, which examines the pay and job satisfaction of IT workers, in the October 24th issue of Computerworld and online at www.computerworld.com.
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- Spherion Survey: Workers Say Listening to Music While Working Improves Job Satisfaction, Productivity
- According to the latest Spherion® Workplace Snapshot survey conducted by Harris Interactive®, almost one-third (32 percent) of workers listen to music while working using an iPod, MP3 player or similar personal music device. Of those, 79 percent feel that doing so improves their job satisfaction and/or productivity. The survey also...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- Insomnia linked to poor job satisfaction
- Workers who don't get enough shut-eye rate their job satisfaction lower compared with employees who get enough Z's, a University of Florida study found, and the effects are most significant in women.
- Research articles 2006-09-01
