This study examines relationships between achievement motivation and job characteristics on job satisfaction among IS personnel. The analytical results reveal that the dimensions of the achievement motivation of IS personnel are perseverance, competition and difficulty control. Regarding job characteristics, the job characteristics of IS personnel are task identity, professionalism, feedback, a...

The dualistic nature of the present study explored if there existed any relationship between organizational silence, job insecurity, job satisfaction, and burnout among EFL instructors and if job satisfaction me- diated the latent relationships among organizational silence, job insecurity, and burnout. To this end, 120 EFL instructors from different Azad University branches in the Fars pr...

Job satisfaction has recently featured in many journals and in the media, as our society grows more astute of the psychosocial well-being of health care professionals. Job satisfaction is a dynamic concept based on cognition and affect – two linked domains of the human psyche. It has been traditionally described as “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s...

During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open positions (as measured by the Help Wanted OnLine Index) more than tripled. The weak labor market prompted an unprecedented extension in the length of time in which a claimant can collect unemployment insurance (UI) to 99 weeks, at an expense to date of $226.4 billion. While many clai...

The determinants of job satisfaction are estimated for Ph.D. level scientists in the United States across academic and nonacademic sectors. Female scientists report lower job satisfaction than males in academia but higher job satisfaction than males in the nonacademic sector. Academic scientists with tenure have substantially greater job satisfaction than non-academic scientists but academic sc...

In this paper, we examine how migrants‟ perceptions of psychological contract fulfillment affect their job performance. In addition, we also examine the mediating role of job involvement and moderating role of labor contract. Data were obtained from 305 employees from 14 construction companies in South China. Results reveal that: a) the psychological contract fulfillment is positively related w...