BUS-Z - Business BUS-Z 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Job Satisfaction

• School: IUPUI
• Department: BUS-Z - Business
• Course: BUS-Z - Business BUS-Z 302
• Professor: D A R R E L L E.B R O W N

Document Summary

Job satisfaction: a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of your job or job experiences. Employee job satisfaction has decreased over the last 10 years. 49% of americans are satisfied with their jobs, down from 58% a decade ago. Values those things that people consciously or subconsciously want to seek or attain. Value-percept theory job satisfaction depends on whether you perceive that you job supplies the things that you value: pay satisfaction: employees" feeling about their pay, promotion satisfaction: employees" feeling about company"s promotion policy. Some people don"t want to frequent either because bring more responsibility and increased work hours: supervision satisfaction, coworker satisfaction, satisfaction with the work itself: boring job maybe easier, but they are not better. Job characteristics model: critical psychological states: meaningfulness of work work tasks are viewed as something that counts in the employee"s system of philosophies and beliefs.