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>
Highlights
Volunteerism gets recognition all over the world due to its importance and impact to the community
A cross sectional survey was conducted among 310 college student volunteers from four regions of peninsular Malaysia
Results showed that the average level of overall job satisfaction and all subscales were from moderate to high level
Summary
Volunteerism gets recognition all over the world due to its importance and impact to the community. Realizing the importance of volunteerism among college students, the government provides special grants for them to organize volunteering activities. The same thing goes to the college students as majority of them coming from poor family. They have to pay fees for their study. People engage in activities for the sake of money and to fulfill their psychological needs. Volunteerism research and publication in Malaysia gets little attention (Chek Mat, 2004; Nazilah, Fauziah & Rozmi, 2014; Siti Nazilah, Fauziah & Rozmi, 2012a; Siti Nazilah, Fauziah & Rozmi, 2012b; Turiman Suandi, 1991) and information about level of job satisfaction among college student volunteers is unknown
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