BACKGROUND Organizational culture refers to the beliefs and values that have existed in an organization for a long time, and to the beliefs of the staff and the foreseen value of their work that will influence their attitudes and behavior. Administrators usually adjust their leadership behavior to accomplish the mission of the organization, and this could influence the employees' job satisfacti...

BACKGROUND Nurses' job satisfaction is an important issue because of its impact on the quality of the nursing job. Therefore, it receives a lot of attention in the international nursing literature but insight into the sources of nurses' job satisfaction is yet insufficient, in particular for sources related to organizational structure. OBJECTIVES We contribute by investigating the relationshi...

Occupational health and safety risk factors can have direct or indirect effects on levels of organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and the job productivity of workers in service companies as well as other types of industries. In this paper, the effects of physical, biological, chemical and socio-psychological risk factors, related to occupational safety and health, encountered in hotel e...

© 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...

This study investigated the relationship between job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment among lower-level employees. Job satisfaction and job involvement were used as independent variables in the study while organizational commitment was used as the dependent variable. Data was gathered from a random sample of 100 lower-level employees of the company concerned. A quest...

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of job satisfaction among supermarket workers. A self administered questionnaire survey was conducted from July-September 2007. Data were collected from 111 supermarket workers in a major supermarket located in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia. Respondents were asked to complete a 10-item job satisfaction questionnaire. The response rate was 74%. The pe...

abstract aim and materials: the aim of current study was to investigate the role of the personality traits and psychological health in staff's job satisfaction. methods and materials: using available sampling method 110 people of kharazmi university administrative staff were selected and assessed by big five factor of personality questionnaire, psychological health questionnaire and spector’s j...

satisfaction among chain community pharmacists: results from a pilot study. ABSTRACT * Objectives: The objectives of this study were to obtain pilot data concerning the job satisfaction of Tucson area retail chain setting and to identify the facets of community practice that have the greatest contribution to job satisfaction. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of chain pharmacists in the...

Job satisfaction has been tested and proven as one of the factors that glue employees to their organization. The objective of this study is to determine the influence of financial reward on job satisfaction among lecturers in four public universities in Kelantan. The sample was randomly selected through systematic procedure. Data collected from 320 samples using self-administered questionnaires...

BACKGROUND General opinion is that doctors are increasingly dissatisfied with their job, but few longitudinal studies exist. This study has been conducted to investigate a possible decline in professional and personal satisfaction among doctors by the turn of the century. METHODS We have done a survey among a representative sample of 1,174 Norwegian doctors in 2002 (response rate 73 %) and co...