The Relationship Between Organizational Pride, Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction: A Literature Review

Abstract

Employees with a strong sense of pride in their organization may be more satisfied at work. This is because organizational pride can increase a person's sense of meaning and purpose in their work. Organizations should pay attention to job characteristics to enhance organizational pride and job satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between organizational pride, job characteristics, and job satisfaction. Firstly, this paper defines organizational pride, job characteristics and job satisfaction. After that, there is a literature review of the previously reported findings regarding the relationship between organizational pride, job characteristics and job satisfaction. From a review of the extant literature on job characteristics, organizational pride and job satisfaction it can be concluded that future research needs to look into how job characteristics relate to organizational pride and job satisfaction because there is not enough research on the relationship between job characteristics and organizational pride.