Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Piano Tuning

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Kelly Raz

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Job satisfaction: pleasurable emotional state resulting from appraisal of one"s job/job experiences represents how person feels and thinks about his/her job. Directly affects job performance and organizational commitment. High job satisfaction = positive feelings when thinking about duties/partaking in task activities. Low job satisfaction = negative feelings when thinking about duties/partaking in task activities. Employees satisfied when job provides things they value. Value: things that people consciously/unconsciously want to seek/attain: different people value different things, may during course of working life. Values play key role in explain job satisfaction. Value-percept theory: argues that job satisfaction depends on whether employee perceive that his/her job supplies those things that he/she values. Dissatisfcation=(v want v have) v importance o: big difference between wants and haves creates sense of, suggests that people evaluate job satisfaction according to dissatisfaction specific facets of job. Commonly assessed work values: pay satisfaction: employees" feelings about compensation for.