SOC227H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Job Satisfaction, Absenteeism, Nonunion
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All indicate considerably more dissatisfaction with working conditions than do attitude surveys. Structural: motivations and work orientations, characteristics of the job and the workplace. Aging effect: older workers have their expectations, becoming more accepting of relatively unrewarding work. Life-cycle effect: older workers are more likely to have family and community interests that might compensate for dissatisfying work. Job effect: emphasize the nature of the work performed, older people have been promoted into more rewarding, have changed jobs until they found one they liked and satisfying jobs. Self-selection: less satisfied workers will drop out of the labour force as they get older, leaving behind more satisfied workers. Older workers report satisfaction better jobs they have obtained over time and to their cumulative social experiences and adaptations in the workplace and society. Combination of better jobs and declining expectations levels of job satisfaction. Individualistic and structural determinants of job satisfaction. Little difference : men and women in self-reported job satisfaction:
