This paper analyses the situation when employees fail to adapt to overall job dissatisfaction. By combining the existing knowledge in economics on job lock and in psychology on employees' feeling of being 'stuck' at work, the paper explains why some employees fail to adapt when dissatisfied with their job. Thus, the paper aims to expand our understanding of why some employees are job locked or ...

© 2009. The Authors. Licensee: OpenJournals Publishing. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Att ribution License. ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to assess the construct equivalence of the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), and to investigate the manifestation of job satisfaction at selected organisations in South Africa. A cross-sectional survey design with...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of conscientiousness personality trait in the relationship of emotional exhaustion with job performance (task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors). the participants of this study consisted of 400 high school teachers in khuzestan province (260 male & 140 female) that were selected by multi-stage random sampling metho...

BACKGROUND Few studies about gender differences in job quality and job satisfaction among medical professionals have been carried out in China. So the objectives of this study were to examine whether and to what extent gender differences existed in job quality and job satisfaction of doctors in rural western China. METHODS From 2009 to 2011, a total of 1472 doctors from 103 selected county-le...

introduction: pharmacists and pharmaceutical services are among the most important resources and programs in providing health for a society. pharmacists as the key players in presenting health services, greatly impact on the health of a society and if they suffer low job satisfaction, their dissatisfaction may relatively threaten health in a society. this study was conducted to determine irania...