Workplace Environment And Job Satisfaction Literature Review

Over several decades, a number of researchers have conducted numerous different kinds of studies in order to appropriately understand and comprehend the connection between workplace environment and job satisfaction in diverse backgrounds. These studies have yielded different sorts of results which have led to distinctive speculations. The studies have suggested that there are a number of factors present in the workplace environments that can determine if the employees would be satisfied or dissatisfied with their occupational characteristics and job roles. A workplace environment filled with several negatively influencing factors may lead to job dissatisfaction among the employees and its subsequent results would represent the poor performance

The experts usually recommend that a narrative literature review should try to summarize and synthesize the findings that have been critically pointed out by and discussed in several kinds of existing literature so that the readers develop a proper understanding of the topic being studied (Green, Johnson, & Adams, 2006). The narrative manner of the literature review has been used to find out, summarize, and compress the most common and the most significant results demonstrated in various journal articles and books that were collected from several extensive databases. Some of the keywords majorly used to collect the existing literary pieces associated with the topic being studied are workplace environment, components of the workplace environment, job satisfaction, job dissatisfaction, workplace environment and job satisfaction, workplace environment and job dissatisfaction, education level and job satisfaction, factors influencing job satisfaction etc. The databases used to collect the academic articles and papers were JSTOR, Science Direct, Elsevier, Researchgate, Google Scholar, Oxford Journals, PubMed, PsycINFO, and PLOS. The criteria for selecting the usable articles for this research work was that the articles should have been published after the year of 2005. However, some articles published earlier than the specified period have also been selected and used because they were found to be significantly important and relevant to this study. Moreover, only the most relevant pieces of the existing literature have been used to extensively in order to discuss the several dimensions related to various workplace environments, different aspects and components contributing to a workplace environment, the relation between workplace environment and job satisfaction, and the relation between education level and job satisfaction. No personal bias was potentially introduced either on the stage of the literature