Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and workers’ overall job satisfaction and their satisfaction with pay. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses British data from two different cross-sectional datasets. It estimates probit models with overall job satisfaction and satisfaction with pay as subjective depen...

There are many scholarly articles in the literature sources that refer to the employee performance evaluation topic. Many scholars, for example, describe relations between employees’ job satisfaction, or motivation, and their performance. Others deal with the performance evaluation of the whole organization where they include tangible and intangible metrics. However, only few of them provide wi...

The aim of the present study is to demonstrate the empirical distinctiveness of workaholism and work engagement by examining their relationships with well-being in a sample of 776 Japanese employees. We expected that workaholism is associated with unwell-being (i.e., high psychological distress and physical complaints, low job and family satisfaction, and low job performance), whereas work enga...

OBJECTIVE This secondary data analysis explored factors influencing job satisfaction in a sample of nursing assistants employed in Maryland skilled nursing facilities. BACKGROUND Multiple factors have been shown to affect job satisfaction and turnover in nursing assistants (NAs), but the problem of turnover persists in skilled nursing facility environments affecting quality of care. METHODS...

Background: Health system is seeking to provide health services for people by creating the desirable culture and climate, in which, human resources are ready to provide the effective and high quality services. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and job satisfaction of midwives therapeutic, teaching and health centers of Karaj. Methods: in ...

In this study we show the comparative study of job satisfaction in Public and Private Bank sectors. This paper will investigate as to what extent job satisfaction has lead to good working performance in formal organization. The study will examine the factors which influence employee’s job satisfaction in organization such as Job involvement, Organizational commitment, Quality of work life, orga...

BACKGROUND Following the implementation of family physician program in 2004 in Iranian healthcare system, the understanding in changes in physicians' practice has become important. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the level of family physicians' job satisfaction and its relationship with their performance level. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conduct...

Will people who are happy with their jobs exhibit superior job performance? Researchers have examined the “happy worker is a productive worker” postulation for decades and concluded the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance is not as strong as one would expect. The current research investigates possible explanations, including operationalizations of the satisfaction and perf...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction of physicians is an important issue for performance of a health care system. The aim of the study was to evaluate the job satisfaction of primary care physicians in Switzerland and to explore associations between overall job satisfaction, individual characteristics and satisfaction with aspects of work within the practice separated by gender. METHODS This cross-sec...