Job Satisfaction Index (Hoppock)

Job Satisfaction Index (Hoppock)

1. Choose one fo the following statements which best tells how well you like your job. Please check mark () in front of that statement.

(a) I hate it.

(b) I dislike it.

(c) I don’t like it.

(d) I am indifferent to it.

(e) I like it.

(f) I am enthusiastic about it.

(g) I love it.

2. Check one of the followings to show how much of the time you felt satisfied with your job.

(a) Never.

(b) Seldom

(c) Occasionally

(d) About half of the time

(e) A good deal of the time

(f) Most of the time

(g) All of the time

3. Check one of the followings which best tells you how you feel about changing your job.

(a) I would quite this job at once if I could get anything else to do.

(b) I would take almost any other job in which

(g) I would not exchange my job for any other.

If a person chooses the ‘least satisfied’ of the seven alternatives he gets a score of 100 and 100 points are added for each successive alternative. An individual gets 700 if he chooses “most satisfied” alternative for each item. The average of the four items is the satisfaction index. Other researchers have index job satisfaction in terms of the responses to job related factors in a variety of scale ranging from simple yes – no to 7 point scales. There are four areas including both on the job and off the job factors. Each area includes 20 items some of which are given below:

1. Job: Nature of work, working hours, fellow workers, overtime regulations, physical environment, machines and tools, interest in work, opportunities for promotion and advancement, etc.

2. Management: Reward and punishment, praise and blame, leave policy, favouritism, participation, supervisory treatment, etc.

3. Social Relations: Neighbours, friends and associates, caste barriers participation, in social activities, attitudes towards people in community etc.

4. Personal Adjustment: Health, home and living conditions, finances relations with family members, emotionalism,

Examines on the connection between job fulfillment and non-attendance have yielded uncertain outcomes. The greater part of these reviews demonstrated that low truant workers were more happy with their occupations. Explore additionally uncovers that unionized works have a tendency to be more fulfilled while representatives of irritated associations (poor modern relations) were by and large less fulfilled. Less fulfilled workers will probably stop their occupations than more fulfilled