The Effects of Sexual Harassment on Job Satisfaction, Earnings, and Turnover among Female Lawyers

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Laband ◽  
Bernard F. Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Female Lawyers ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Overall Job Satisfaction

Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction (1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the legal profession. Nearly two-thirds of female lawyers in private practice and nearly half of those in corporate or public agency settings reported either experiencing or observing sexual harassment by male superiors, colleagues, or clients during the two years prior to the survey. Female lawyers who had experienced or observed sexual harassment by male superiors or colleagues reported lower overall job satisfaction than did those who had not, as well as a greater intention to quit. The authors speculate that employers and coworkers may sometimes be able to sexually harass female employees in ways or degrees that are not sanctionable but that induce the victims to quit. Sexual harassment may contribute to an undetermined extent to many aspects of women's employment experience, including absenteeism, turnover, productivity rates and work motivation, job dissatisfaction, and unemployment. —MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of Working Women

scholarly journals The Relationship between Sexual Harassment and Job Satisfaction in the Context of Retailing Industry in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choi Sang Long ◽  
Zhao Lingyun ◽  
Tan Owee Kowang ◽  
Goh Chin Fei ◽  
Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Satisfaction Survey ◽  
Job Satisfaction Survey ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between sexual harassment and job satisfaction in one of the China’s retailing company. A total of 103 respondents from one of the China’s retailing company are selected as respondents and thus data is analyzed based on the completed questionnaires. Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ) and Job Satisfaction Survey are employed as measurement tools to measure the sexual harassment and job satisfaction of employees separately. Descriptive analysis, correlations analysis and multiple regression analysis are utilized to analyze the collected data. The main findings revealed that sexual harassments, verbal conduct of sexual harassments and physical conduct of sexual harassments have a significant and negative relationship with job satisfaction and the non-verbal conduct of sexual harassment is not significantly related to the job satisfaction. The dominant element of sexual harassment is physical conduct of sexual harassment affecting on job satisfaction mostly among female employees in the organization. In addition, it is also found that the moderate level of sexual harassment creates a low level of job satisfaction in the organization. Furthermore, the dominant sexual harasser is often a colleague, followed by a superior, customer and others. Several recommendations are suggested for the company and for future researches.

scholarly journals The Effect of Job Satisfaction in Mediating the Relationship between Compensation, Tasks Competence and Commitment of Teachers ofSMA Don Bosco Padang

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 514-522
Author(s):  
Martinus Kiwan ◽  
Heryanto
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Effect Test ◽  
And Task ◽  
Task Commitment

This study aims to determinethe effect of Job Satisfaction in Mediating the Relationship between Compensation, Tasks Competence and Commitment of Teachers of SMA Don Bosco Padang as many as 64 people. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed to the entire population that could be used for analysis purposes. Hypothesis testing was carried out by using data analysis techniques through Path Analysis. The results of the data analysis show that of the (two) independent variables, Compensation has no significant effect. Menawhile, task competence has a significant effect on the Task Commitment variable (the dependent variable). Furthermore, the Compensation and Task CompetencyVariables have a significant effect on the Job Satisfaction variable as an intervening variable. Likewise, the Job Satisfaction variable also has a significant effect on performance. Both of the Independent Variables are eligible for the Mediation test. Job Satisfaction as an intervening variable has no influence between Compensation and Task Commitment. While Job Satisfaction as an intervening variable influences the Task Competence and the Task Commitment of Teachers of SMA Don Bosco Padang.The effect of compensation variable and career development to the commitment of the task in the first phase amounted described by value R2is 0.783 or 78.3%, when compared to the effect test of variable compensation and competency tasks to task commitment in the second stage by inserting a mediating variable work motivation where the effect described by the value R2is 0.783 or 84.6% or the increase of effect by incorporating variable job satisfaction as an intervening variable is 84.6% - 78.3%, or 6.3%

scholarly journals Effect Transformational Leadership Style, Work Motivation, And Job Satisfaction Where Performance Dinas Energi Dan Sumber Daya Mineral Provinsi Sumatera Barat

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masril
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Determine Effect

This study aims to determine “Effect Transformational Leadership Style, Work Motivation, And Job Satisfaction Where Performance Dinas Energi Dan Sumber Daya Mineral Provinsi Sumatera Barat by the respondents as many as 90 (ninety) people. Data were collected through a questionnaire distributed to the entire population that can be used for analysis. Hypothesis testing is performed using data analysis techniques through multiple regression.The results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that of the three independent variables, transformational leadership style, work motivation and job satisfaction significant effect on performance (the dependent variable). The magnitude of the effect of variable Transformational Leadership Style, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction of the performance variable (dependent variable) amounted to 60.2% or the value of R Square of 0.602 remaining 39.2% is influenced by other variables not included in this study model.

The effect of job satisfaction, absenteeism, and personal motivation on job quitting: A survey of Croatian nurses

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-422
Author(s):  
Eva Smokrović ◽  
Maja Frencl Žvanut ◽  
Antun Bajan ◽  
Radivoje Radić ◽  
Boštjan Žvanut
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Practice Environment ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Nursing Practice Environment ◽  
The Impact

Previous studies point to many inconsistencies regarding the determinants of job quitting. This study focuses on the impact of nurses’ job satisfaction, work motivation, nursing practice environment, personal characteristics and absenteeism on their intention to leave the job. An anonymous survey was performed on a sample of Croatian registered nurses. The results indicate that nurses’ job dissatisfaction, combined with a higher rate of absenteeism, represents a clear indication of their future turnovers. Nursing practice environment and personal motivation do not have a significant direct effect on the Intention to leave the job, but do have an indirect one through job satisfaction.

Job Satisfaction in EMS: A Different Approach

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Job Diagnostic Survey ◽  
Job Longevity ◽  
Overall Job Satisfaction

AbstractThere has been limited organizational research applied to EMS, especially in the area of job satisfaction. In the midst of a general shortage of health care workers, effective recruitment and retention of a qualified and satisfied work force is a critical issue. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors and elements in the structure or “design” of the work of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics that can create conditions for high levels of work motivation, satisfaction, and performance.A modified Job Diagnostic Survey was administered to a cross section of 102 paid and volunteer EMS personnel in Pennsylvania. The relationships between measured job characteristics, experienced psychological states, and job longevity on overall job satisfaction was examined.Significant positive relationships (p<.05) exist between a number of the job characteristic variables (such as task significance, autonomy, and job feedback) and job satisfaction. Job longevity did not have a significant relationship to job satisfaction. Volunteer EMS personnel experienced higher levels of job satisfaction than did paid providers.The results indicate that the EMT and paramedic perform complex jobs that have high levels of the characteristics that cause internal work motivation. Methods to increase the amount of these core job characteristics to improve overall job satisfaction are discussed.

scholarly journals Worplace Sexual Harassment and Female Objectification: Feminist Perspectives on Violet Barungi’s Cassandra

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mamadou Abdou Babou Ngom
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Male Leadership

Using Violet Barungi&rsquo;s Cassandra as a stepping-stone, I seek in this research article to analyze how feminism can be an effective weapon against the dyadic straitjacket of sexual harassment on the job and female objectification. The paper argues that male leadership leverage their stranglehold over their female employees to morph them into mere sexual objects. At the root of working women&rsquo;s subservience to their male guv&rsquo;nors, the paper contends, lies deep-seated power dynamics heavily weighted in favour of men. The eponymous character&rsquo;s enactment of a gritty agency geared towards resisting cripplingly sexist practices in the workplace, and hidebound mindset in her society, bespeaks a dismissal of self-pity and discouragement that sometimes characterizes many women to their male-induced marginality.

Determinants of Job Satisfaction of Municipal Government Employees

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Ellickson ◽  
Kay Logsdon
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Supervisory Relationships ◽  
Municipal Employees ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Performance Appraisal Satisfaction ◽  
Overall Job Satisfaction

What variables explain variation in job satisfaction among municipal government employees? Using data from a recent survey of over 1,200 full-time municipal employees, this research tests the relative influence of 11 environmental variables and 3 demographic factors on variation in job satisfaction among this rarely studied group of employees. The regression analysis revealed that environmental factors such as promotional opportunities, pay and benefits satisfaction, performance appraisal satisfaction, equipment and resources, training, workload, supervisory relationships, and most important of all, departmental esprit de corps were significantly, and positively, related to overall job satisfaction. In contrast, demographic variables were relatively poor predictors of job satisfaction. Over 50 percent of the variation in job satisfaction among municipal employees is explained using this model.

scholarly journals Perceptions of sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and job satisfaction among female employees in the public sector

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. Brand ◽  
M. T. Silberman
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
South African ◽  
Measuring Instrument ◽  
Sexual Discrimination ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Female Employees

Discrimination against women is a phenomenon still present in today's society. While research concerning sexual discrimination has been done, very little has been written about it under South African conditions, and almost no research has been done concerning the perceptions of female employees regarding sexual discrimination and harassment towards them. This study investigated female employees' perception of sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and job satisfaction. A questionnaire was developed and used as a measuring instrument on a probability sample of female employees in a public sector department. Results show that the respondents do not experience sexual discrimination to a large extent, and that they believe that sexual harassment will have a negative effect on job satisfaction, absenteeism and negativity towards the work environment.

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