Effects of Job Characteristics on Employee Satisfaction in the Public Radio Stations in Syria

Abstract

Based on the existing literature indicates that job characteristics, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior are very important for effective organizational functioning, the present study has predicted the job satisfaction level of the general radio stations employees through job characteristics by investigated a complete relationship between five job characteristics as antecedent of job satisfaction. The primary data was collected through the job diagnostic survey originally developed by Hackman & Oldham (1975) from (289) employees and from different sections, with the help of Regression Analysis by using SPSS we have found a positive and significant relationship among various job characteristics and job satisfaction andrevealed that job characteristics has been significantly affecting job satisfaction.