Siegal and Lance (1987) stated that ‘job satisfaction is an emotional response defining the degree to … See more

Job satisfaction refers to a person’s feeling of satisfaction on the job, which acts as a motivation to work. It is not the self-satisfaction, happiness or self-contentment but the satisfaction on the job. Job satisfactio… See more

Hoppock offered one of the earliest definitions of job satisfaction when he described the construct as being any number of psychological, physiological, and environmental circumstances which leads a person to e… See more

One of the biggest preludes to the study of job satisfaction was the Hawthorne studies. These studies (1924-1933), primarily credited to Elton Mayo of the Harvard Business School, sought to find the effects of various c… See more

Job satisfaction is a frequently studied subject in work and organizational literature. This is mainly due to the fact that many experts believe that job satisfaction trends can affect labour market behaviour and influen… See more

Several studies have been carried out in the past of determine the correlates of high and low job satisfaction. These studies have related job satisfaction to two types of variables- organizational and personal. Findings wi… See more