Psychology 2660A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Job Satisfaction, Job Enrichment, Absenteeism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: John Meyer

Document Summary

Prototypical attitude with the job as the focus. Important for implications of behaviour of ones job . A pleasurable positive emotional state resulting from the cognitive appraisal. They measure your satisfaction with the job in general. There aren"t clear theories about job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is a reaction to the situation (job enrichment) Job satisfaction is influence by the reactions of others (social information processing theory) Satisfaction is a joint function of the person and the situation. How does level of pay result to satisfaction of pay. To understand how satisfied someone will be you need to know about the conditions and the person. Correlations are positive but very low (0. 14, 0. 17, etc) Satisfaction is one of many factors influencing performance. Hypothesis: satisfied works will attend more regularly. Problems with measurement of absenteeism (e. g. voluntary vs involuntary) Satisfaction is one of many factors influencing attendance.