ADM 2336 Lecture 4: Chap4 Notes.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Laurent Lapierre

Document Summary

Disposition: some people are predisposed to enjoy their job more or less than others (not in book, some personality traits (to be discussed late feb) are linked to job satisfaction, one personality trait that explains this: consciousness. 5 major facets of job satisfaction (values: pay, promotions, supervisor(s, coworkers, work tasks (work itself) Identity: use different abilities to perform their responsibilities, ex: teacher teaches different courses, research projects vary, compare this to a routine job: assembly line (extreme, one teacher or team taught, responsibility of one course = boost meaningfulness of work done, the whole identity of the work responsible for all of it, significance. Will this make a difference to non academics: freedom of decision making, latitude on job to make decisions regarding how you do your job, order you do things, autonomy over actual responsibilities, teacher: autonomy on what topic he"ll do research, but on teaching side, not full autonomy.