ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Enrichment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Gerard Brathwaite- Sturgeon

Document Summary

Job satisfaction a collection of attitudes that workers have about their jobs. Specific objects, situations, persons or categories or people. It represents how you feel about your job and what you think about your job. The majority of canadian reports being satisfied with their jobs (81%) and like the people they work with (88%) Some people are predisposed by virtue of their personality to being more satisfied. Some personality traits are linked to job satisfaction. At general level, employees are satisfied when their job provides the things that they value. Values are those things that people consciously or subconsciously want to seek or attain. A theory that the job satisfaction stems from the discrepancy between the job outcomes wanted and the outcomes that are perceived to be obtained. Job satisfaction depends on whether you perceive that your job supplies the things that you value. People evaluate job satisfaction according to specific facets of the job.