This study examines the effect of own income versus reference group income and the subjective factors considered important in a job for a sample of off farm migrants in China. We find that own income has a positive effect on job satisfaction while the effect of reference group income is gender specific. We find evidence that males experience a tunnelling effect (higher income coworkers increase...

Introduction Human service nonprofits provide labor-intensive services and, as such, employees are a major factor in determining organizational success (Maelicke, 2004). Thus, nonprofits involved in human services are highly dependent on the quality, motivation, and satisfaction of their employees for the delivery of their services (Akingbola, 2006). Job satisfaction is influenced by many endog...

Organizations that can successfully retain their human resources have an advantage over organizations that cannot. Regardless of individual industry, the turnover of employees makes it difficult to secure a work force and costs companies enormous expenses to recruit, hire and train new personnel. Research targeting various industries does not show consistent results because of the different cha...

The dualistic model of passion was investigated in a work context. This model states that individuals may develop either a harmonious or obsessive passion for a valued activity. We hypothesized that harmonious passion for work would be positively related to job satisfaction through higher perceptions of belongingness at work. Results from a survey conducted with 278 Norwegian employees showed t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the associations between occupational stress, burnout and turnover intention and explore their associated factors among managerial staff in Guangzhou, China. METHODS This cross-sectional study recruited 288 managerial employees from a Sino-Japanese joint venture automobile manufacturing enterprise in Guangzhou. The questionnaire included question...

In this study, the authors proposed and tested a 3-way interaction among positive affectivity (PA), job satisfaction, and tenure in predicting negative employee outcomes. Specifically, the authors predicted that the relationship between job satisfaction and negative outcomes would be stronger for high PAs and that this relationship would be more pronounced for longer tenured employees. Results ...

Information technologies (IT) are increasingly prevalent in modern organizations. Given the important role of employee users in the IT implementation process, recent studies have acknowledged employee users’ satisfaction with the implemented IT (IT satisfaction) as a salient aspect of job performance. This study extends prior literature by evaluating employees’ job satisfaction as a surrogate o...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship of organizational commitment and job satisfaction with emotional intelligence of employees. the statistical population included all staff of physical education general dpeartment of lorestan province (n=50). due to the low sample size, the sample equaled the statistical population. to collect data,  the emotional intelligence questionnaire...

The research aims to study the association between job satisfaction, motivation and the five factors of organizational citizenship behavior (i.e. Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy and Civic virtue) among Public Sector Employees in Pakistan. In this research Structure Equation Modeling with confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the relationship between two independent ...