Abstract

This research seeks to investigate the influence of different public sector organizational antecedents on government employees’ job satisfaction. Extensive reviews of literature revealed perceived procedural justice, distributive justice, esprit de corps and job training as the most referred antecedents of employees’ job satisfaction. To empirically test the study hypotheses, data were collected from 332 personnel working in National Savings (Public sector investment bank in Pakistan). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data using SPSS Statistics 23 and AMOS 21. The results of this research generally support the hypothesis proposing the relationships between organizational antecedents (procedural and organizational justice and esprit de corps) and job satisfaction, except the association between employee’s training and job satisfaction. The study helps in formulating policies regarding workforce and labor management by providing in-depth insight to the concerned authorities of various government organizations. This research, in addition to limitations, provides some tangible future research directions for future researchers in the light of its findings.

Highlights

  • In the field of human resource development, job satisfaction has been given significance importance, especially in the case of public sector institutes

  • To empirically test the study hypotheses, data were collected from 332 personnel working in National Savings (Public sector investment bank in Pakistan)

  • The results of this research generally support the hypothesis proposing the relationships between organizational antecedents and job satisfaction, except the association between employee’s training and job satisfaction

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Introduction

In the field of human resource development, job satisfaction has been given significance importance, especially in the case of public sector institutes It can be measured form employees’ satisfaction for extrinsic and intrinsic job features. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, one of the most important theories, explains men’s needs in hierarchical order ranging from psychology to self-actualization Several scholars such as Kuhlen [1] and Conrad [2] making Maslow’s theory as a base, professed to measure employees’ satisfaction through their pleasure. Moynihan and Pandey in their work stated that culture has a significant role in job satisfaction in public sector institutes [5] This is because of the fact that satisfaction is the phenomena related to human psychology and is influenced by cultural behavioral patterns. The section below, gives in-depth understanding of various antecedents of employees’ job satisfaction

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