ORGS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Performance, Emotional Contagion, Job Enrichment

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: John Paschakis

Document Summary

Job satisfaction is one of several individual mechanisms that directly affect job performance and organizational commitment. Job satisfaction is defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one"s job experiences. How you feel about your job and what you think about your job. Employees with high job satisfaction experience positive feelings when they think about their duties or take part in task activities and vice versa with negative feelings. Values are those things people consciously or subconsciously want to seek or attain. They affect job satisfaction because they deal with the things that work can give you. Values play a key role in explaining how satisfied or dissatisfied we feel about our jobs. According to the value-percept theory, job satisfaction depends on whether you perceive that your job supplies the things that you value. Vwant = how much of a value an employee wants. Vhave = how much of that value the job supplies.