Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective* In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm’s ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the employer-employee relation is repeated and...

Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), it is shown that income comparison with persons who are better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time employees. Two contrary effects can be identified. On the one hand, there is an aversion to disadvantageous regional income in...

this study aimed to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and rganizational citizenship behavior and personality traits city staff lorestan. the research objective of the application and the method of data collection, descriptive, correlative to-be conducted in 1394. the study population of 500 municipal employees lorestan 217 employees were selected using cochran formula the se...

employees’ attitude towards his/her job differs across organization’s sector. the present study aimed to find out the differences in employee’s attitude in public and private sector. for this purpose, managers’ reward power and coercive power were taken as independent variables and their impact on employees’ job satisfaction (dependent variable) was examined in both sectors. sample of 130 respo...

emotional intelligence (ei) is a new concept and a type of intelligence that is described as “the ability to understand exactly, evaluate and represent emotion”. many studies were evaluated the effect of emotional intelligence on work satisfaction and performance. the results were shown that the employees with high level of emotional intelligence are valuable property for their organizations. i...

Article history: Received 30 January 2010 Available online 9 May 2010 Using survey data from 226 employees and their supervisors in four manufacturing companies in China, we found that employee self-efficacy has a dual moderating effect on the impact of supervisory mentoring on subordinate career outcomes. Path analytic tests of mediated moderation suggested that self-efficacy moderates the med...

The validity of Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory of Motivation was tested empirically by surveying 2372 chemical fiber employees in 2012. In the valid sample of 1875 respondents, the degree of overall job satisfaction was more than moderate. The most highly valued components of job satisfaction were: “corporate image,” “collaborative working atmosphere,” and “supervisor’s expertise”; whereas the lo...

Despite the large body of work on the work-family interface, hardly any literature has addressed the work-family interface in safety-critical settings. This study draws from social exchange theory to examine the effect of employees' strain-based work-to-family conflict on their supervisors' rating of their safety participation through job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 494 drivers from a...