Impact of Job Satisfaction of Employees and Organizational Culture in Banks on Receptiveness to Change, Cooperation among Peers, Team Orientation, Organizational Goal Identity and Union Management Cooperation

Abstract

Job satisfaction is how content an individual is with his or her job. Scholars and human resource professionals generally make a distinction between affective job satisfaction and cognitive job satisfaction. Affective job satisfaction is the extent of pleasurable emotional feelings individuals have about their jobs overall, and is different to cognitive job satisfaction which is the extent of individuals' satisfaction with particular facets of their jobs, such as pay, pension arrangements, working hours, and numerous other aspects of their jobs.In the current study, employees were asked to indicate their level of satisfaction for different aspects of job like salary, relationships with peers, organizational structure, cooperation of managers etc.This research paper emphasizes on 16 items (job aspects) for which employees had to state their level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction on a five-point scale. This Study has bought out Impact of Job Satisfaction of Employees and Organizational Culture in Banks on Receptiveness to Change, Cooperation among Peers, Team Orientation, Organizational Goal Identity, Union Management Cooperation, etc. At its most general level of conceptualization, job satisfaction is simply how content an individual is with his or her job. At the more specific levels of conceptualization used by academic researchers and human resources professionals, job satisfaction has varying definitions. Affective job satisfaction is usually defined as a unidimensional subjective construct representing an overall emotional feeling individuals have about their job as a whole. Hence, affective job satisfaction for individuals reflects the degree of pleasure or happiness their job in general induces. Cognitive job satisfaction is usually defined as being a more objective and logical evaluation of various facets of a job. As such, cognitive job satisfaction can be unidimensional if it comprises evaluation of just one aspect of a job, such as pay or maternity leave, or multidimensional if two or more facets of a job are simultaneously evaluated.