Explain the Basics of Job Satisfaction

The happy employee is said to be the productive employee and it is very true in the practical life. If the employee is happy he will be working in a very satisfied manner and will give the better results for the organization in which he is working. In order to make the organization successful it is important to keep its employee happy. One of the best methods is to motivate the employees to make them work harder. An employee is happy if he is satisfied with his job. One should not go for the job only to fulfill financial requirement. It is necessary to have job of own choice. A person spends more than half of its life in the work place. Hence it is important to select that of personal choice and not by force. The job satisfaction also put great impact on the personal life of the human being. If human being is working by force at a work place he will feel frustrated at a time and start feeling irritating. A satisfied employee will be a happy and contented human being also. The physical and mental well being of the person is calculated by the satisfaction of the employee in his workplace. It can be both cause and effect but it is correlated also.

The extent of the positive attitude a person is having towards its job is the degree of the job satisfaction. It is the main factor that involves the success of the organization. If the group of persons is doing business by their own interest then it is possible to succeed in a very less span of time due to the immense interest of the people of that group and their innovative ideas for the business. If a person has a high job satisfaction that indicates that that person likes his job to the great level and he feels good about it and also value it in all the aspects. It is the pleasurable state that emerges due to appraisal from one’s job. The appraisal from the job is also very necessary as it makes the person feel motivated so that he gets inspired to do more for his job and work place in a positive way. It ca also be defined as the overall positive effect that an employee have towards its organization or work. If a person does not like his job at all he can experience job dissatisfaction. It is the set of feelings that are favorable or unfavorable through which an employee view its work. The job satisfaction emerges from the extent to which a job provides the employee the things which he considered as important for him. It is the duty of the organization to provide and satisfy the employee by analyzing what is important for him.

If an employee is financially not good then monetary rewards for his work can give him motivation in a positive way to work harder and earn more. If an employee expects prestige or recognition from the department or organization then he can be promoted to the next level. In this way an organization can give the employees the things they expect from it in return of the hard work and the innovative ideas for the organization that can take the organization to the great level. The important dimensions of the job include the important things that must be kept in mind in order to make it understandable. It is the factor that cannot be seen but it can only be inferred. It relates to the ones feeling towards the job or the organization. It is the level of the job satisfaction that decides that how the results meet the expectations or exceeds the expectations. If the employee working in an organization feels that he is working harder day and night but is not being paid according to that then it can bring negative attitude in the mind of the employee. This negative attitude can lead to the job dissatisfaction and hence put a negative impact on the work of the employee. He might start ignoring his work and start taking it less seriously. The relation of the boss and the co worker can also get effected due to this. In the same way if the person is paid according to his work and he is treated nicely by its organization that he will develop positive attitude towards his work and organization too. He will be then satisfied with his job to the great level. It is the easy to do good for someone who does well to you. One wishes to do the good for the person who is good with you.

In the same way it is easy to pay back the organization with the good work if organization is thinking about its employees in a positive way. The job satisfaction and the job attitude are used interchangeably and they are used in the common sense to the great extent. If a person keeps positive attitude towards the job that indicates the job satisfaction and in the same way if the person keeps the negative attitude towards the job then it is said to have job dissatisfaction. It is necessary to analyze these things and these should not be avoided as it can be eventually bad for mental as well as physical health of the person. Since the terms like job satisfaction and job attitude are used interchangeably but still there is difference among the both to some extent. The job satisfaction can be treated as the specific subsets of the attitudes. The attitude of a person tells a lot about his opinion, liking or disliking of a person. Job satisfaction tells a lot about the attitude of the person related to the job. The attitude is related to the predispositions to respond however satisfaction is related to the performance factors. Attitudes are the long lasting one but the satisfaction is the dynamic process. The satisfaction of the person keeps on changing. It can decline more quickly as compared to the rate it is developed. It is the duty of the manager to pay attention to these kinds of the things and avoid dissatisfaction in the mind of the employees.