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.

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

Betriebsräte und Arbeitszufriedenheit / Works Councils and Job Satisfaction

2006 ◽  
Vol 226 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Jirjahn ◽  
Georgi Tsertsvadze
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Works Council ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

SummaryEmpirical studies on establishment-level codetermination usually focus on the impact of works councils on firm performance. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this is the first systematic research to examine the relationship between works councils and job satisfaction. It is shown that the relationship depends on the type of worker. The presence of a works council increases job satisfaction of full-time employed blue-collar workers. In general, councils do not have an influence on full-time employed white-collar workers. However, there is a negative association between works council presence and job satisfaction of managers. Furthermore, the presence of a workers council is associated with lower job satisfaction of non-full-time workers.

Determinants of Job Satisfaction of Federal Government Employees

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Ting
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Promotional Opportunity ◽  
Federal Government Employees ◽  
Using Data

What determines the job satisfaction of federal government employees? Using data reported in the Survey of Federal Government Employees, I propose and assess the argument that the job satisfaction of federal government employees is determined primarily by three sets of factors: job characteristics, organizational characteristics, and individual characteristics. The empirical findings show that job characteristics such as pay satisfaction, promotional opportunity, task clarity and significance, and skills utilization, as well as organizational characteristics such as organizational commitment and relationship with supervisors and co-workers have consistently significant effects on the job satisfaction of federal government employees. I also discuss the research and organizational implications of my findings.

scholarly journals Affective-cognitive consistency of attitude as a moderator of the job satisfaction-performance relationship

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deléne Visser ◽  
Sanet Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Cognitive Consistency ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Overall Job Satisfaction

Past research has often shown that job satisfaction and job performance are uncorrelated. The current study was an attempt to clarify the relationship by examining the role of affective-cognitive consistency (ACC) to test whether attitudinal consistency affects the strength of the relationship. A secondary objective was to assess whether modified versions of the Overall Job Satisfaction Scale (OJS) and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), administered to 166 full-time employees from a variety of companies, may be regarded as affective and cognitive measures of job satisfaction respectively. This view was supported by means of exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic results. Overall job satisfaction was measured by a composite of the modified OJS and MSQ, and job performance was rated on a 10-point scale by the employees’ supervisors. Respondents’ scores on the modified OJS and MSQ were then used to form groups that were high or low in ACC. For employees who displayed high ACC regarding their job satisfaction attitudes, medium to large positive correlations between the job satisfaction measures and performance were obtained. In contrast, non-significant correlations were recorded for the low ACC groups. The hypothesis that ACC is a significant moderator of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance was therefore supported. Opsomming Vorige navorsing het dikwels getoon dat werktevredenheid en werkprestasie nie korreleer nie. Dié ondersoek was ’n poging om lig te werp op hierdie verwantskap deur die rol van affektiewe-kognitiewe konsekwentheid (AKK) te ondersoek ten einde te toets of houdingkonsekwentheid die sterkte van die verwantskap beïnvloed. ’n Sekondêre doelwit was om te bepaal of gewysigde weergawes van die Overall Job Satisfaction Scale (OJS) en die Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), toegepas op 166 voltydse werknemers van ’n verskeidenheid ondernemings, as affektiewe en kognitiewe metings van werktevredenheid respektiewelik, beskou kan word. Hierdie beskouing is ondersteun deur ondersoekende en bevestigende faktoranalitiese resultate. Algemene werktevredenheid is gemeet deur ’n kombinasie van die gewysigde OJS en MSQ en werkprestasie is beoordeel op ’n 10-punt skaal deur die werknemers se toesighouers. Respondente se tellings op die gewysigde OJS en MSQ is hierna gebruik om groepe te vorm wat hoog of laag in terme van AKK was. Vir werknemers met hoë AKK betreffende hul werktevredenheidhoudings is medium tot hoë positiewe korrelasies tussen die werktevredenheidmetings en prestasie behaal. In kontras hiermee is onbetekenisvolle korrelasies vir die lae AKK-groepe aangeteken. Die hipotese dat AKK ’n beduidende moderator van die verwantskap tussen werktevredenheid en werkprestasie is, is dus ondersteun.

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

2009 ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Christoph Wunder ◽  
Johannes Schwarze
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Tunnel Effect ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Regional Income Inequality ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The One

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), it is shown that income comparisons with persons who are better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time employees. Two contrary effects can be identified. On the one hand, there is an aversion to disadvantageous regional income inequality, while, on the other hand, individuals prefer inequality within their occupational group. The two effects are interpreted as envy and an information (or ‘tunnel’) effect, respectively. The analysis of income comparison with persons who are worse off suggests a prestige effect. However, downward comparison is of minor importance for job satisfaction.

Organizational climate and job satisfaction: do employees’ personalities matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamarul Zaman Bin Ahmad ◽  
Sajjad M. Jasimuddin ◽  
Wang Ling Kee
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Overall Job Satisfaction

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights on the interplay of organizational climate and job satisfaction, taking personality traits as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the extant literature from which it develops a theoretical model which is then tested empirically in the Malaysian context, using hierarchical regression methodology. Findings The results imply that there are moderating effects of personality traits on the relationship between certain aspects of organizational climate and job satisfaction. Research limitations/implications The cross-sectional nature of this study inhibits the testing of causality between the variables. The research model and hypotheses were tested, using data drawn only from companies operating in a single country. Practical implications The paper provides valuable information to leaders and managers in understanding which personality works better in the potential casual linkage between organizational climate and overall job satisfaction. This paper also helps practitioners to understand better why the same climate can have different impacts on different people. Originality/value It contributes to the conceptualization of the organizational climate by emphasizing Litwin and Stringer’s (1968) dimensions of organizational climate as the important determinants of the job satisfaction. Moreover, it expands the traditional discussion by incorporating the personal traits that moderates the relationship between organizational climate and the job satisfaction.

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