Job satisfaction for women workers is traditionally researched from the job-gender model in which sex roles generate the research framework. Women employed in the labor market are viewed as responding primarily to the confines of sex roles, as opposed to the structural rewards and constraints of the labor market itself. We reexamined earlier studies that found no effect of the labor market on j...

Work is central to most people's identities. When asked a general question, "What do you do"?, most people respond with their job title. Moreover, across many languages, a significant number of people's surnan1es are based on occupations (e.g., in English, just to name a few: abbot, archer, baker, barber, barker, brewer, carpenter, carter, clark, collier, cook, cooper, farmer, fisher, fowler, g...

This paper aims to describe how student satisfaction is measured for work-based learners as these are non-traditional learners, conducting academic learning in the workplace, typically their curricula have a high degree of negotiation, and whose motivations are directly related to their employers’ needs, as well as their own career ambitions. We argue that while increasing WBL participation, an...

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between islamic work ethic and job satisfaction, organizational commitment and desertion in iran ministry of sport and youth experts. the correlation-descriptive method was used in this study which was conducted as a field. the statistic populations consisted of 290 ministry of sport and youth experts. 165 subjects were selected as the sampl...

Research suggests that for many people happiness is being able to make the routines of everyday life work, such that positive feelings dominate over negative feelings resulting from daily hassles. In line with this, a survey of work commuters in the three largest urban areas of Sweden show that satisfaction with the work commute contributes to overall happiness. It is also found that feelings d...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is associated with mental health. Employees could be counselled on how they feel about their work. If specific aspects of their job are causing particular dissatisfaction, they could be assisted to appropriately change these aspects. OBJECTIVE There is no 'gold standard' indicating the aspects that should be taken into account when job satisfaction is measured. Thi...

Article history: Received October 10, 2011 Received in Revised form October, 3, 2011 Accepted 10 December 2011 Available online 15 December 2011 Job satisfaction plays an important role on having sustainable growth in any business units. When an unsatisfied employee leaves, the business unit not only loses an employee but also it loses an intangible asset. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate...