Job Satisfaction among College Student Volunteers

Abstract

<p class="a"><span lang="EN-US">Job Satisfaction is an important element to attract college student’s involvement in volunteer clubs</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span><span lang="EN-US">Most studies have looked at job satisfaction of employees and volunteers in developed countries and few studies of job satisfaction done for volunteers in developing countries. </span><span lang="EN-US">This study aims to survey job satisfaction among college student volunteers in Malaysia. </span><span lang="EN-US">A cross </span><span class="txt"><span lang="EN-US">sectional </span></span><span lang="EN-US">survey was conducted among 310 college student volunteers from four regions of peninsular Malaysia. The participants </span><span class="txt"><span lang="EN-US">were selected using stratified multistage sampling.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> Job satisfaction was measured using </span><span class="txt"><span lang="EN-US">Job Descriptive Index (JDI).</span></span><span lang="EN-US">R</span><span class="txt"><span lang="EN-US">esults of the study revealed that</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> job satisfaction in terms of colleague, leader/leadership, tasks, opportunities for promotion and overall job satisfaction were from moderate to high level. Mean for job satisfaction toward colleague was 43.16 (s.d = 6.63), leader/leadership 41.45 (s.d = 10.19), tasks 41.04 (s.d = 6.07), opportunities for promotion 33.26 (s.d = 10.88) and overall job satisfaction 158.90 (s.d = 25.55). Job satisfaction toward colleague was the highest mean meanwhile opportunities for promotion was the lowest. The implication of college student volunteer’s systems and </span><span class="txt"><span lang="EN-US">practices are discussed. </span></span></p>