PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Job Satisfaction, Job Design, Job Security

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: jbrich

Document Summary

Job satisfaction: pay + benefits, nature of job, csr, social aspect, job design- autonomy, feedback, variety, good boss, opportunity, recognition, job security. Our needs, nurture or parenting and peer group. Types of values: espassed values- values we say we have, enacted values- values we rely on, to guide our decision making. Job satisfaction theories: hertzberg"s two factor theory- Two separate variables which create satisfaction or dissatisfaction: hygiene factor- they are basic factors. They will contribute to satisfaction at basic value: motivators- they are more sophisticated. They are called intrinsive because they are built into job design: value percept theory- Almost any factor can be a source of satisfaction if it has a value for employee. Formula~ degree of satisfaction/dissatisfaction = (value the things we want value the things we have) x importance of value. Implications: management must determine what employee want by conducting a survey etc, provide both extrensive and intrensive rewards, social information processing model-