Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 5: Chapter 5 – Job Satisfaction

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Ellen Choi

Document Summary

Job satisfaction is one of several individual mechanisms within our integrative model that directly affect job performance and organization commitment. Job satisfaction: a pleasu(cid:396)a(cid:271)le e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al state (cid:396)esulti(cid:374)g f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the app(cid:396)aisal of o(cid:374)e"s jo(cid:271) o(cid:396) jo(cid:271) experiences; represents how a person feels and thinks about his or her job. Based on both cognition (calculation opinions of your job) and affect (emotional reactions to your job) Employees with high job satisfaction experience positive feelings when they think about their duties or take part in task activities. Employees with low job satisfaction experience negative feelings when they think about their duties or take part in task activities. At a general level employees are satisfied when their job provides the things they value. Value: are those things people consciously or subconsciously want to seek or attain. Values play a key role in explaining job satisfaction.