Parameters Affecting Job Satisfaction

The satisfaction in a job depends on a lot of the factors and all of these parameters can be either internally affecting or at times affecting externally. The various kind of the research work that has been done in the various parts of the world by the various scientists very clearly show and support the fact that there are not one or two of the factors but in fact there are a large number of the factors that are playing a very vital and an important role in affecting the hob satisfaction among the staff members in an organisation. the satisfaction among the staff members in an organisation is very critical in the nature of the working as by this the staff member is able to perform to the best of the abilities and give the best results and as a whole, the organisation is able to get the best out of the employees and the organisation is able to achieve the desired results and the goals and the objectives that have been set in the accordance of the pre set vision of an organisation. There were times when the required attention was not at all given to the satisfaction of the job and in fact there were times when the employees and the organisation was not knowing about the same that it is the satisfaction in the job that is playing a huge role in the working of the staff member of an organisation but as the time has changed and the organisations have started working on the various type of the factors that play a role here and in regard of this a lot of the research work was carried out by the various scientists and the researchers in the various parts of the world and the result was this that the organisations started understanding the facts of the job satisfaction and started doing there job to make the improvements in the level of the job satisfaction of the staff members.

The research work that has been done in the various parts of the world and is still being done very clearly shows that there are in fact a lot of the parameters that affect the level of the job satisfaction in the staff members of an organisation. The parameters or the factors can be related to the organisation and these kinds of the factors are called as the organisational factors, these are followed by the work environmental factors, personal factors and many more. All of these factors affect the level of the satisfaction among the staff members of an organisation in one way or the other and in the present scenario of the very extreme culture of the working in the organisations, it is very necessary to work on all of these factors and improve the levels of the satisfaction of job among the staff members of an organisation. The present scenario is such that all of these parameters can not be avoided and must be taken care of as if the staff members will be satisfied, then only the organisation will be able to get the maximum out of the staff members of an organisation. There are some of the organisational factors that affect the process of the job satisfaction. The salaries and the wages play a very critical and the same time very vital role on putting the impact on the satisfaction of the job. It happens because of the some of the very basic reasons; the money is one of the most important instruments that are required to fulfill the needs of the person from the time to time. The staff members very often take the money as reflection of the concern of the satisfaction of the management. It is considered as the basic symbol of the achievement as the high level of the pay shows the very high degree of the contribution towards the operation of the organisation.

The non monetary benefits play the equally important role but they are not at all as much beneficial as the monetary factors. Most of the employees are unaware of the fact that how much they are getting in the benefit. They value the benefits if they are related to the monetary one. However on the other hand, the non monetary benefits are undervalued as there monetary value is low. The pay system, which is required by the staff employees as the very simple, fair and in line with the expectations of the staff members of an organisation as the job satisfaction is in fact affected greatly by the proportional chances. The promotion in fact indicates the worth of the staff member in an organisation as this factor has the power to boost the morale of the staff member to the new heights and this has a lot of the good affects on the staff member as well as on the organisation as a whole. The saying is very true in the case of the jobs that are specifically the jobs of the high level, the promotion is taken as the ultimate achievement in the career of the staff member and when the same is realised the staff member is very happy and feels very satisfied. It involves the various kinds of the positive changes that include the higher salary, more freedom, less supervision, increased responsibility, status and also the more challenging work assignments. The organisational structure and the policies are of the great importance that affects the satisfaction of the job of the staff members in an organisation from the time to time. The highly authoritative and the autocratic structure causes the resentment among the staff members of an organisation in the comparison with the structure in an organisation that is more democratic and open in the nature of the working. The organisational policy governs the behaviour of the human beings in the organisation from the time to time. All these policies generate both the positive and the negative feelings towards the organisation as the liberal and the fair policies results in the job satisfaction to a very desirable level. The strict policies can very often create the dissatisfaction among the various staff members in an organisation as they can induce the feeling of not being treated fairly and hence they may feel constraint in the nature of the working. Hence the democratic organisational structure with the liberal and the fair policies is very much connected with the high job satisfaction.

The next in the line are the work environmental factors and all these factors include the factors that are very important and at the same time very critical in the nature as they include the factors like the supervision, work group and the working conditions. The supervision is very critical and the vital source as the same is very necessary for the whole process of the job satisfaction. The two dimensions that affect the style of the supervisory that put a lot of the impact on the satisfaction of the job are employee centeredness and the participation. When ever the supervisor is of the supportive and also of the friendly nature with the workers, there is the job satisfaction among the workers. In this type the supervisor tends to take the very personal interest in the welfare of the staff members of an organisation. The superiors that allow there subordinates to participate in the process of the decision making, helps a lot in the making of the environment that is very conducive to the process of the job satisfaction. The supervisor who establish a personal relationship with the staff members and then also in fact develop a very personal interest in them, all of them contribute to the satisfaction of the staff members in an organisation. The nature of the work group also put a lot of the impact on the process of the job satisfaction as the friendly and the cooperative group give the chances to the various members of the group to have the deeper interaction with each other. It in fact serves as the very important source of the comfort support advice and also the assistance to the group members of the individuals. On the other hand, it is very difficult to get along the groups that are having the negative impact on the job satisfaction. The work group can be even stronger source of the satisfaction of the job if the members have the same kind of the attitudes as well as the values. In these kinds of the groups there is very less friction on the daily basis as the smaller groups give the greater opportunity for making the mutual interest along with the understanding in the comparison to the groups that are larger in the nature of the working. The quality and the group size of the relationships that are inter personal with in the groups play a very important role in the satisfaction of the worker. The good working conditions are always desired by the employees as the same leads to the more of the physical comfort. People desire about the clean and the healthy working environment where the temperature, humidity, noise, lighting, ventilation, noise and cleanliness, the tools and the equipments are all in the desired amount.

All these kind of the features affect the satisfaction of the job of the staff members of an organisation as all this kind of the desirable working conditions can be working for granted and then may not contribute to a satisfactory level towards the process of the job satisfaction. The poor working conditions are sure to become the source of the dissatisfaction as they lead to the physical dangers and the discomfort. All the staff members are not satisfied or dissatisfied by the unfavourable or the favourable conditions as the same depends on the mentality and the nature of the working of the staff members in an organisation. If the working conditions are unfavourable then the probability of the dissatisfaction increases in the levels but as the working conditions become favourable in the nature of the working, very few of the staff members in an organisation have the increase in the level of the satisfaction while the other have a very minor affect or the increase in the level of the satisfaction. The content of the work it self plays a very important role in determining the level of the satisfaction of the job. The aspects of the work that put the impact on the satisfaction of the job are the job scope, the variety, role, ambiguity and the role conflict, lack of the autonomy and the freedom and also the interesting work. The job scope provides the sufficient amount of the responsibility, feed back and the pace of the work. The higher levels of these factors, the higher is the satisfaction of the job and the higher is the job scope. The moderate amount of the variety puts a very good affect as the excessive amount of the variety produces the confusion and also the stress and hence it can be said that a very little variety give the monotony and hence in the other words it can be said that there may be the presence of the fatigue, which in turn results in the dissatisfaction. The lack of the autonomy and the freedom over the work generates the helplessness and the dissatisfaction as the staff members dislike when each and the every step is determined by the senior or the supervisor and the too much interference irritates almost every one. The role, ambiguity leads to the confusion and also the dissatisfaction of the job. As the staff members are not at all aware of the fact that what actually they need to do and in fact what is affected of them. The work that is challenging and also very interesting at the same time and in fact provides a particular status, gives the satisfaction to the staff members in the comparison to the task that is monotonous and also boring at the same time.

The personal attributes of the individuals play a very vital and an essential role to the job satisfaction of the staff members of an organisation. The people with the negative attitude or the pessimist will keep on complaining about every thing including there own job. They will always find the complaints in the every single job and all such kind of the people can not be satisfied easily. The factors that are personal and effect the job satisfaction includes the age, seniority, tenure and the personality. With the age the people become realistic and mature in the nature of the working and also very less idealistic. Hence in the other words it can be said that they are very likely to accept the various kinds of the resources that are available and very easily get satisfied about the situation without challenging or resisting any thing. As the time passes, people acquire more responsible and the challenging positions and the people who are a kind of stagnant in there respective career and do not move up at all with the time, they happen to be dissatisfy with there respective jobs. The staff members who have the long tenure are more satisfied with there jobs. The tenure gives the job security that is a very satisfying thing for the employees. They can very easily make the planning regarding there future with out the fear of losing there respective jobs. Some of the personality traits that are directly related to the process of the job satisfaction are the self esteem, maturity, self assurance, decisiveness, challenge, sense of the autonomy and the responsibility. The higher is the person on the hierarchy of the organisation, the higher is his job satisfaction. This type of the satisfaction comes from inside of the person and it is the function of the personality of the employee. Hence in the other words it can be said that the management must assure about the happiness of the staff member of an organisation by providing a very healthy work environment. There is a very deep relationship between the job satisfaction and the performance of the staff member of an organisation. Both the job satisfaction and the job dissatisfaction are the concerns that are very important and essential for the management to control to a necessary substantial level. The high satisfaction of the job results in the very improved productivity, improved attendance, decreased turn over, reduces accidents, less unionisation and also the less level of the stress at the work station in an organisation. The job dissatisfaction induces the low morale among the workers and such kind of the attitude at the work is undesirable in the nature of the working. In the examining the results of the job satisfaction it is very necessary to break the analysis down in to the specific series of the sub topics and all this is very essential for the staff members of an organisation and also at the same time for the organisation as a whole.