According to Mosadeghard (as cited in Odembo 2013), job satisfaction is defined a cognitive state as to how an individual feels about their job. This means the job has an intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of employees to perform their job effectively. According to Spector (as cited in Aziri, 2011), there are three features of job satisfaction. Firstly is that organisations must value human values, meaning that each employee must be treated with respect and fairness, in this case this will lead to employees becoming effective. Secondly the behaviour of employees, if the employees have an impact on the functioning and activities within the organisation therefore positive behaviour will lead to job satisfaction, and negative behaviour will lead to job dissatisfaction. Lastly, organisational activities serve as indicators of job satisfaction. In each department within the organisation there are different levels of satisfaction which will determine which department need to increase their performance.
The factors that contribute to job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction are stress; well-being; motivation, and the elements of job satisfaction are recognition for a job well done; a healthy work environment; meaningful work; equitable compensation; the chance to work with interesting, motivated and responsible people; as well as job flexibility (Health Works, 2014).
A couple of studies have proven that satisfaction has a strong relation to subjective well-being. These studies
As it has been seen earlier, there is no common consensus on the factors that determine the experience of happiness at personal and national levels. While it remains a subjective phenomena, several tools that have been evolved over the past few years that have enabled social scientists and psychologists to ‘measure’ happiness. The possibility thus, of an empirical basis for research on happiness has resulted in widespread interest on this subject which has been not only been recognized as playing a key role in driving economies but also serving as a benchmark to gauge the success of implementing related policies. However, it is interesting to note the different criterion adopted by different studies to assess the extent of happiness experienced
Correlation between decreased satisfaction and increased noise levels sig level <.001 , -.615 per descriptive SPSS analysis. Analysis of Problem: Team D formulated to analyze problem of increased noise and decreased satisfaction and
Haybron suggests that satisfaction does not equate happiness, on the other hand Diener and Biswas-Diener uses satisfaction studies to measure happiness. Also, while Haybron’s article is mostly about the emotional state,
For determining the validity, correlation between the scores on the scale and Alam and Srivastava's (1972) life satisfaction scale was computed and coefficient of correlation was found to be
(1991) indicates that the balance between negative and positive feelings is a good indicator of happiness. This suggests the measurement of objective happiness by means of individual balance of positive and negative experiences. Other studies revealed that purely measuring positive emotions, strong implications could be made about the individual happiness level; they can be seen as markers and sources of happiness (Diener, 2005). This is the reason why Seligman only used positive emotions in the PERMA model. Having a valued and worth filling positive life also strongly depends on positive emotions, (Fredrickson, 2001) due to the high correlation of life satisfaction and SWB (Michalos, et al., 2009).
Introduction In any organisation, a good leadership is important to motivate their subordinates, bring the organisation forward and achieve its goals. A good leader has a clear vision and passion to influence their followers. Job satisfaction and organisational commitment are important factors in determining organizational efficiency. Robbins & Judge (2013) defined leadership as the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals and to perform at their highest capability (Rad and Yarmohammadian, 2006).
Multiple Definitions Satisfaction is defined as the doctrine of fulfilling a contract or an obligation to desired level (Drummond & Standish, 2007). This definition does not fully define our services at Bascom Palmer; we define satisfaction as an accomplishment and attendance of our patients needs in a unique way, which is beyond their expectations. Satisfaction implies to exceeding the needs of your clients or customers. A patient expects to be accorded good services, but as we all know, good services cannot be fully satisfactory, therefore, to us, satisfaction implies to offering the best quality services which surpasses patient’s anticipation. Our philosophy of offering satisfactory health care services to people is based on the religious beliefs, which recognize that God creates human beings in his own likeness.
the theory. My argument proceeds in 4 sections: In the first section, I will articulate Lukas’ argument for self-regarding restriction and why idealized restriction does not work well. In the second section, I will show that Lukas’ argument for self-regarding restriction is not the best form of argument for Desire Satisfactionism, for the restriction that only desires which are relevant to well-being are counted can encompass irrelevant desires as well. In the third section, I will offer a response on Lukas’ behalf.
(D.C. Feldman and H.J. Arnold 1983). “Job satisfaction is the amount of pleasure or contentment associated with a job. If you like your job intensely, you will experience high job satisfaction. If you dislike your job intensely, you will experience job dissatisfaction”. (Andrew J. DuBrins 1988).
Among scholars, the different facets of job satisfaction included feelings toward a job, pay, benefits, supervision, coworkers, the work itself, organizational environment, and work conditions as stated by Biggs & Swaile; Fichter & Cipolla (as cited by Appiah, 2016). Aziri (as cited by Appiah, 2016) stated that employees were usually more productive, more stable, and had a better
Researchers have worked to achieve appropriate definitions of happiness. Happiness is a background baseline feeling and a most general positive emotional sentiment, which involves favourable evaluation of significant aspects of life, or of one’s overall situation, as both right and good (TenHouten, 2012: 182). According to philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), happiness is the sum of positive emotions minus the sum of negative emotions (Crane and Hannibal, 2009:93). Researchers are also working collaboratively to provide the appropriate relation between money and happiness. Therefore, researchers raise many questions on money and happiness, and one of those questions is “To what extent can money affect happiness?”
It has been found that job satisfaction is negatively correlated with, as well as with FWC. It has also been found that family satisfaction was significantly impacted by WFC. Furthermore, WFC was found to have a considerable, negative relationship to life satisfaction. Relationships between the satisfaction variables have also been observed. Job satisfaction has also been found to be positively related to life, while family satisfaction and life satisfaction have also been found to be considerably related.
Moreover, both job satisfaction and employee engagement are playing a significant role through accomplishing the organizational goals and objectives effectively and efficiency. Job satisfaction is important in the organizational settings, because according to Robbins and judge in 2013, first of all, job satisfaction affects productivity because several studies have stated that, the more employees are satisfied and happy, they more likely to have more products. Secondly, job satisfaction influences absenteeism, there is a negative relationship among job satisfaction absenteeism because satisfied employees are less likely to miss work. In the third place, job satisfaction again plays an essential role through the decisions of staying or leaving of the workers within the organization which is called turnover .in the fourth stage, job satisfaction is the main consideration of an employee 's organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), also the employees who are more satisfied are more likely to involve in OCBs, and talk more positively about the firm.
Argyle, Martin and Crossland (1989) defined happiness as having three partly independent components: (1) the average level of satisfaction over a specific time period; (2) the frequency and degree of positive affect; and (3) the relative absence of negative affect. “Happiness” denotes a measure of an individual 's evaluation of one 's overall quality of life (Veenhoven, 1997). The term is usually used interchangeably with “life satisfaction”. People reporting to be happy tend to smile more and show lower levels of stress responses (heart rate, blood pressure), and they are less likely to commit suicide (Diener, Suh, Lucas & Smith, 1999). Research on happiness has identified a number of personal, demographic and socio-economic covariates of happiness that explain observed happiness patterns.
This new 4-item measures of global subjective happiness was developed and validated in 14 studies with 2732 participants. This happiness scale has high internal consistency, which was found to be stable across samples. Test- retest and self-peercorrelations suggested good to excellent reliability, and construct validation studies of convergent and discriminate validity conform the use of this scale to measure the construct of subjective happiness. The possible range of scores on the Subjective Happiness Scale is from 1.0 to 7.0, with higher scores reflecting greater