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Job satisfaction flash cards
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- 1WANG (2007) what is job satisfaction?Job satisfaction influences psychological well-being
- 2Spector (1997) what is job satisfaction?Job satisfaction is how content an individual is with his or her job.
- 3Spector (1997) what is job satisfaction?Job satisfaction can be assessed at both the global level (overall) or at the facet level (different aspects of the job)
- 4Spector(1997) what is job satisfaction?Their is 14 facets of a job which includes:Appreciation, communication,coworkers,fringe benefits,job conditions, nature of work , organization,personal growth, policies and procedure , promotion opportunities , recognition, security and supervision
- 5Straw , Bell & Clausen (1986) dispositional and personality approachdisposition or personality approach suggests that job satisfaction is to some extent an individual trait.
- 6Straw,Bell & Clausen (1986) dispositional and personality approachDispositional approach became a notable explanation to job satisfaction when it was found that job satisfaction tends to be stable over time and across career and jobs
- 7Arvey et al (1986) dispositional and personality approachIdentical twins raised apart have similar levels of job satisfaction
- 8Judge,Locke &Durham (1997) dispositional and personality approachcreated the core self evaluations model that determines ones disposition towards job satisfaction by there self esteem , general self efficiency ,locus of control and neuroticism
- 9Judge,Locke &Durham (1997) dispositional and personality approachstate higher levels of self esteem , general self efficiency ,internal locus of control and lower lever levels of neuroticism lead to higher work satisfaction
- 10BOEHM &LUYUMBERMURSKY(2008) dispositional and personality approachhappier people reported higher job satisfaction ,they also show higher levels of job performance and earn higher incomes
- 11dispositional and personality approachhard to change anything if you blame job satisfaction on the individuals personality and genetics
- 12dispositional and personality approachresearch on other approaches and other causes of job satisfaction shows that the dispositonal approach cannot stand alone as the sole explanation of job satisfaction
- 13Pollock &Whitbred &Contractor(2000) What is job satisfaction?one of the most frequently studied facets of organisational behavior concerns the factors in the work environment that influence individual attitudinal states such as job satisfaction
- 14Salancik & PFeffer (1978) Social information processing perspepectiverefers to the idea that individuals as adaptive orgasnisms , adapt attitudes , behaviour, and beliefs to their social context and to their own past presen behaviour and situation
- 15Salanick & Pfeffer (1978) Social information processing perspectiveconcludes that studying the informational and social environments within behaviour occurs and which it adapts can best teach about individual behaviour
- 16Pollock, Whitbred &Contractor (2000) Social information approachdeveloped as an alternative to needs saifaction theories that followed basic assumptions that individuals have different sets of need that have to be satisfied and jobs posses certain characteristics that can meet these needs
- 17Pollock , Whitbred & contractor (2000) social information theoryindividual needs and perceptions of job characteristics are not fixed , rather they are influenced by social environment , or the network of social and social environment in which they are embedded
- 18Pollock ,Whitbred & contractor (2000) social information processingfound that it was criticized for having an oversocialized view of individual satifaction and for not articulatin the process through which the social environment influences individual attitudes
- 19Job satisfaction changes over the lifespan-job satisfaction steadily increases through working life
-The lowest Job satisfaction is reported in the youngest workers - 20Job satisfaction changes over the Lifespanolder people have a longer time to find jobs that suit them or they may lower their expectations over the years so they are more easily satified
- 21Job satisfaction change over the lifespana sense of redignation develops in some workers as they row older and they may give up looking for fullfilment and challenge in their work and seek satisfaction elsewhere
- 22Job satisfaction over the lifespandissatisfied older people may be more likely than younger ones to opt for early retirement ot voluntary redundancy , so there is a biased sample of older people in work (as they chose to be there)
- 23Job satisfied changes over the lifespanage and experience usually brings increased confidence , competence and self eteej. This in turn leads to a greater sense of accomplishment
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