Aspects Of Job Research Articles

Level of job satisfaction among employees working at healthcare facilities in Nisava and Toplica district

The product of health system and its employees is health service whose quality is related to the satisfaction and motivation of people working in health system. The objective of this study was to assess and compare satisfaction with different aspects of work among different categories of employees in healthcare facilities on primary, secondary and tertiary level of health care in Nisava and Toplica districts. The study was conducted as a one-day study in 15 healthcare facilities on primary level, in two public hospitals and 27 clinics of Clinical Centre of Nis, using anonymous questionnaire. Out of 3,892 employees, who took part in this study, 2,227 were from primary and 1,665 were from secondary and tertiary level. All employees on primary level are more satisfied with the majority of aspects of job comparing with employees on secondary and tertiary level of health care. Administrative staff is in general more satisfied with all aspects of job comparing with other categories of employees. All employees on secondary and tertiary level are more physically and psychically exhausted than employees on primary level of health care. Health workers on secondary and tertiary level are most psychically exhausted. There is a difference in satisfaction with different aspects ofjob in different categories of employees, and on different levels of health, in healthcare facilities in Nisava and Toplica districts. Employees of healthcare facilities on primary level of health care are in general more satisfied than employees on se-condary and tertiary level of health care.

Job Satisfaction amongst Information Technology (IT) Employees in Bangalore City-A Sociological Approach

A dilemma the majority organizations look is how to maintain skilled workers As information technology has gone from common to established during the last twenty (20) decades, retaining experienced information technology (IT) employees has turn into extra complicated. Consequently, this study focused on investigative job satisfaction among information technology (IT) employees in Bangalore city in Karnataka state. The primary objective of this study is to ascertain the levels of job satisfaction amongst information technology employees at an IT (information technology) and BPO (Business processing outsource) sector. For the purpose of this study is job satisfaction among information technology (IT) employees. The sample group (N = 100) consisted of permanent and contract male and female extending across the following occupational classes: Individual contributor, junior level management, Middle level management, senior level management. The Job Descriptive Index questionnaire (JDI) measures job satisfaction on five job facets, namely, salary, promotions, working condition, co-workers and the work life balance itself. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. A biographical questionnaire and the Job Descriptive Index questionnaire (JDI) were administered to gather the data. This paper reviewed presented literature to get what other researchers have

Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy

The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also autonomous collaborations used by firms as low-cost de facto temporary employment relationships. Little is known about the quality of these temporary jobs, particularly widespread among young workers. We estimate a regression model of perceived overall job satisfaction of young workers, based on the ISFOL-PLUS 2006-2008-2010 panel. We control for the various temporary contracts and for perceived satisfactions in nine aspects of the job. We find that lack of job stability is the most serious cause of lower satisfaction for both temporary employees and autonomous collaborators. But while temporary employees compensate concerns of job stability with other job aspects, attaining satisfaction levels comparable to those of permanent employees, autonomous collaborators do not and are thus significantly the least satisfied.

You?re Hired?25 Top Interview Questions for Circuit Designers [Conference Reports

Organized by Mike Flynn (University of Michigan) and moderated by John Khoury (Silicon Labs), the Tuesday evening "You're Hired" ISSCC conference panel session became the perfect setting for exploring the philosophical aspects of job searching and practical issues such as corporate interview styles and standard technical questions. The long-term down-turn in the global economy contributed to genuine interest in the panelists' jobhunting advice. The session brought to light a dozen typical interview questions that probe a candidate's technical level by digging down to the fundamentals of the electronic design profession. Oscillations in relatively simple circuits triggered particularly interesting discussions between the panelists and the audience.

A Comparison of the Perceptions of Secondary School Teachers’ Satisfaction about their Jobs

Job satisfaction is the key aspect of human nature. It is assumed that teachers show less satisfaction than any other organization in developing countries like Pakistan. This study compares the level of job satisfaction between male and female secondary school teachers. Six facets of job satisfaction were developed to compare gender, age, teaching experience, and location of the school with teachers’ job satisfaction. The population comprises all public sector secondary school teachers working in district Lahore, Pakistan. Three hundred and twenty two secondary school teachers were randomly selected from sixty public sector secondary schools. Data were collected personally. Job Satisfaction Scale for Teachers (JSST) was used for this purpose. One way ANOVA and t-test were applied. The results are interpreted in the context of Pakistan. Findings of the study suggested that female teachers were more satisfied with work and supervision aspects of job as compared with male teachers. No significant difference was found in the job satisfaction between science & arts and urban & rural school teachers. Age and work experience did not explore the job satisfaction difference in teachers. Further studied may be conducted to explore the impact of job satisfaction on students achievement. Based on the findings recommendations are presented.

Erziehungsziele von Eltern in Abhängigkeit sozio-struktureller Merkmale und subjektiver Orientierungen – eine längsschnittliche internationale Analyse auf Basis der Daten des World Values Survey

Summary The article deals with the factors influencing educational objectives and values people prefer in children on the basis of data of parents in the World Values Survey. Within the German sample (n = 1525) correlations were found between educational objectives, socio-structural factors, financial status of the family, aspects of job and partnership, socio-cultural aspects, religious beliefs and values. In a longitudinal perspective the development of parental educational objectives is analyzed on the basis of the two waves of 1994-1997 and 2005-2007 Germany participated in (n = 2946). Furthermore on an international basis, educational objectives of parents in Germany are contrasted with objectives of parents in Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Turkey and Japan (n = 6131).

International medical graduates mandated to practise in rural Australia are highly unsatisfied: Results from a national survey of doctors

ObjectivesRural communities worldwide are increasingly reliant on international medical graduates (IMGs) to provide health care access, with many countries utilising health policies which mandate IMGs to practise only in rural designated areas of (medical) workforce shortage for many years. The objective of this study is to analyse the satisfaction of IMGs in their current work location, particularly in relation to the effect of mandating IMGs to small rural communities. MethodsWe used data of 3502 general practitioners (GPs) from Wave 2 of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal study of Australian doctors. The main outcome measures were the level of professional and non-professional satisfaction expressed by GPs with respect to various job and social aspects. ResultsWe found that non-professional satisfaction of mandated IMGs was significantly lower across all social aspects, whilst professional satisfaction was also significantly lower for most job aspects relating to their professional autonomy. In contrast, non-mandated IMGs were similarly satisfied compared to Australian trained GPs. ConclusionsMandated IMGs are currently filling a critical shortage in rural areas of Australia. However, long-term success of this policy is problematic unless outstanding issues affecting their significantly reduced professional and non-professional satisfaction can be addressed.

How can quantitative ecology be attractive to young scientists? Balancing computer/desk work with fieldwork

How can quantitative ecology be attractive to young scientists? Balancing computer/desk work with fieldwork

Measuring the Job Satisfaction of Female Library Professionals Working in the Health Libraries in Dhaka City

Job satisfaction is an important area to determine the view of the library professionals towards their job in the library. The study has been under taken to measure the level of job satisfaction of female health library professionals in Dhaka city and how do the job facets (MSQ, 1967) affect on job satisfaction of female health library professionals. There is a cross sectional observational study to see the level of job satisfaction among health library professionals. A standard questionnaire (MSQ, 1967) is used to measure the level of job satisfaction of the sample. The result shows that out of twenty job facets eleven facets are highly significant for the job satisfaction and nine facets quite insignificant for job satisfaction. The study shows independence, variety of work, social status of the job, supervision-human relation supervision-technical, moral values, authority, ability utilization, library policies and practices, scope of advancement, relation with co-workers, recognition of job done and achievement has significant effect on job satisfaction. Further more it noticed females are less satisfied at their job. Finally, the significant recommendations have been put forth to improve the level of job satisfaction of female health library professionals in Bangladesh. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/el.v23i1.12117 Eastern Librarian Vol.23(1) 2012 pp.37-50

Learning For and From the Field: The Experience of Being a Research Interviewer

This article provides a narrative on the experience of being a research interviewer on a federally-funded state-wide study of group homes for youth. Despite the centrality of interviewers for much of the research on a wide range of children's services, very little attention has been given to how interviewers experience this role and what supports they need to enact it effectively. The article discusses various aspects of the interviewer job, discusses management and supervisory approaches that support interviewers, and provides lessons learned and anecdotes to illustrate key points. An introduction and concluding thoughts by the study's Principal Investigator provide an overview and potentially relevant lessons for the broader research field.

Identifying Student Leaders: A core self-evaluation approach

Developing future leaders is a vital aspect of an educator's job. One way to prepare our students is to help develop those with leadership capabilities, however identifying these leaders can be a difficult task. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to use a trait-based approach to identify student leaders. The specific trait used in this study was core self-evaluation. The findings of this study support core self-evaluation as a strong indicator of student leadership.

The facets of job satisfaction among vice‐principals in elementary schools

PurposeLiterature on vice‐principals that aims to get a better understanding of their roles, role perceptions in school management, and their attitudes towards school management have revealed that the vice‐principalship is one of the least researched and least discussed. The purpose of this paper is to explore the facets of job satisfaction among Turkish vice‐principals.Design/methodology/approachData were collected via a survey administered to 159 vice‐principals working for elementary schools in a city in the eastern part of Turkey and results were gathered by May 2010. A two‐part survey questionnaire was used to elicit responses from vice‐principals. The instrument consists of 31 items and asks respondents to indicate the extent of their agreement with each of the items on a four‐point Likert scale. In this study items were designed as a five‐point scale. There is a section to collect personal information. It was included together with an item asking for their career orientation.FindingsThe results confirmed that the job satisfaction of vice‐principals had four job facets: “professional commitment”, “sense of synchrony”, “sense of efficacy”, and “level of personal challenge”. The results showed that the facets of “sense of efficacy” and “sense of synchrony” were major sources of job satisfaction, and that the vice‐principals who had any educational administration degree felt themselves more effective and more synchronic. The vice‐principals who did not plan to be a principal felt themselves less effective when coping with work stress and balancing their work and personal lives.Originality/valueThe paper provides a better understanding of vice‐principals’ roles, role perceptions in school management, and their attitudes towards school management, and extends knowledge about the facets of job satisfaction among Turkish vice‐principals.

FACTORS AFFECTING JOB SATISFACTION OF WORKERS IN INDONESIAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES

This paper describes the influence of job characteristics, rewards, relations with superiors, relations with co-workers, and fulfillment of higher order needs, as job facets, on the job satisfaction of workers in Indonesian construction companies. A questionnaire survey was conducted in Jakarta (the capital city) and Bandung (one of Indonesia's major cities). The results revealed that workers in different occupational groups and managerial positions perceive differently the conditions of job facets and that there are different levels of job satisfaction among different categories of workers. This research indicates that workers care about the quality of their work and company's performance and that these aspects affect significantly their job satisfaction. Reward is also revealed to have an important influence on workers’ job satisfaction.

Job Satisfaction in Banking Sector: An Exploratory Analysis

This paper attempts to focus on job satisfaction in banking sector. The total sample covers 362 bank employees working in both public and private sector banks. To study job satisfaction, dimensions like job aspects, work environment, innovative aspects and interpersonal relations are focused. Further, variables like age, sex, marital status, qualification and type of organization are considered for the analysis. A study into relationship between the dimensions reveals that a significant relationship between dimensions under study is existed. More over dimensional-wise analysis reveals that innovative and work environment as well as job aspects and interpersonal relations are strongly correlated. While job aspects and innovative aspects were associated relatively very low, differences in opinion between the variable-wise respondents is also revealed by the study.

Turnover of New Graduate Nurses in Their First Job Using Survival Analysis

To examine factors related to turnover of new graduate nurses in their first job. Data were obtained from a 3-year panel survey (2006-2008) of the Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey that followed-up college graduates in South Korea. The sample consisted of 351 new graduates whose first job was as a full-time registered nurse in a hospital. Survival analysis was conducted to estimate survival curves and related factors, including individual and family, nursing education, hospital, and job dissatisfaction (overall and 10 specific job aspects). The estimated probabilities of staying in their first job for 1, 2, and 3 years were 0.823, 0.666, and 0.537, respectively. Nurses reporting overall job dissatisfaction had significantly lower survival probabilities than those who reported themselves to be either neutral or satisfied. Nurses were more likely to leave if they were married or worked in small (vs. large), nonmetropolitan, and nonunionized hospitals. Dissatisfaction with interpersonal relationships, work content, and physical work environment was associated with a significant increase in the hazards of leaving the first job. Hospital characteristics as well as job satisfaction were significantly associated with new graduates' turnover. The high turnover of new graduates could be reduced by improving their job satisfaction, especially with interpersonal relationships, work content, and the physical work environment.

Winning the War for Talent: Back to Basics

McKinsey & Company claim to have coined the term the war for talent in 1997. The idea still resonates with managers because it reflects the fact that talented people are a critical driver of corporate success. For those involved in this 'war,' the search continues for fresh ideas about: how to make the recruiting process more desirable, what mix of organizational and job attributes will attract talented people, how to develop more talented managers, and how to design of an attractive workplace environment that retains such people. Recent research, managerial anecdotes and numerous surveys have highlighted the importance of various aspects of corporate and social reputation to winning the war for talent. In this paper - aimed mainly at a managerial audience - we provide an overview of findings from a series of experiments conducted where MBAs and white-collar office workers must choose amongst alternative job contracts. Our findings reveal that while reputation matters, it is marginal, with its effect confined to the bottom and top of the reputation distribution. Hence, for most companies reputation factors have little substantive influence on job choice relative to more functional and utilitarian aspects of the job and company.

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

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.

The Effectiveness of Social Skills Training on Students' Levels of Happiness

Abstract Introduction; Improving the individuals’ health is one of the most important factors in communities. Nowadays, the health is considered as a complete physical and mental welfare. Not just the absence of disease or disability, the concepts such as self-satisfaction,life expectancy and social welfare in mental health description are the factors considered by World Health Organization,which are along with positive emotions like joy, peace, and happiness.Happiness, in thefield of psychology, is a positive emotion and deeper than a temporary good condition.Happiness is a stable feeling in positive emotions,understanding the reality of life and is meaningful.Happiness and mental health include positive emotions such as joy, peace, the sense of flowing and the fascination in life. General satisfaction, in various aspects of life, is called happiness. Purpose: To create happiness in people, motivational and cognitive processes can be taught to people that cause or increase the happiness. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of social skills training on students’ levels of happiness. Materials and methods: This study is experimentally conducted by pre-test, post- test and proceeding in control group. The subjects of the study are selected from four groups of male and female students, two experimental groups and two control groups. The method of social skills training was as an independent variable and the level of happiness was as a dependent variable. They conducted the pre-test before training and post-test after four weeks of training, and proceeding six weeks after training. The statistical universe of this study includes all third year students in Babol University of Medical Sciences in academic year of 88. The sample group consisted of 100 students (males/females) who were selected by multistage random cluster sampling To measure the levels of students’ happiness, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was used which has 29 questions withfour options. The intervention method- Levinson and Goth Lyb's‘social skills training program: the social skills training program is a great series of cognitive and behavioral techniques to increase the individuals’ happiness developed by Levinson and Goth Lyb (1995).To data analysis, the method of descriptive and inferential statistics indexes and SPSS software were used. Results: The statistical analysis indicated a significant difference between pre-test and post-test scores of students’ levels of happiness. So, it can be said that the social skills training programs lead to increase the levels of happiness. According to the results, there is no significant difference between male and female students’ levels of happiness. And also, regarding to the effectiveness of social skills training program, there is no significant difference between males and females. Conclusion: The findings indicated that Levinson and Goth Lyb's social skills training method is effective to increase the students’ levels of happiness. Regarding the continuation of happiness during the time, the studies indicated that the subjects even at the time of proceeding and after a long time were happy. In general, the researches indicated that happy and unhappy people are different in terms of intellectual structure, judgments and motivation. Happy people have more individual, familial, job, educational and social efficiency. Because the feeling of welfare and happiness has a significant role in students’ mental health, and all people aware of its positive effects on personal, familial, social, educational and job aspects, it is recommended that special attention should be paid to mental health. These findings indicate the importance of social skills training workshops in the first year of university. Due to its cost-effectiveness, in terms of both space and time, this program can be used well in university.

Interview

ANDREW MEAD RACHEL VANDAGRIFF: Tell me about how you first knew of PNM and what it meant to you to have a journal like that in existence as you were coming into the musical–intellectual world? ANDREW MEAD: Well, when Perspectives started I was ten years old, so that was a bit early for me. (Laughter.) But when I got into college I started encountering it and . . . Well, what I think I first encountered were the anthologies of articles that Ben Boretz and Ed Cone put together from the early issues. I was reading those in college. That got me on to the journal itself, which I read in college and also in graduate school. And it was just like, “Oh Boy! Here are people talking about stuff that I am really, really interested in.” And it hasn’t stopped being that. . . . I was an undergraduate at Yale. VANDAGRIFF: And then you went to Princeton? Andrew Mead 113 MEAD: Yes. VANDAGRIFF: Has your relationship with PNM changed over time, or your idea about what the magazine is? MEAD: Obviously I think one’s relationship will have changed over time, because I have been sort of aware of PNM for . . . Gosh, I would say I have been reading it for forty of its fifty years. After reading it for some time, I started publishing in it, then I was an associate editor, and after that I became part of the group of five that edited it for some issues. I think I am still on the editorial board. I still publish there. The people who are the editors now are good friends of mine. VANDAGRIFF: Are there any particular PNM articles that had a great impact on you or hold a particular place in your memory, either ones you have written and it was important for you to have a forum, or articles you read that really . . . still have or had a hold on you for quite a while. MEAD: Well, let me not talk about my own articles, although I will say this: Perspectives allowed me to publish a whole bunch of different things, and I have always been grateful for that. I think my most recent thing in Perspectives is an article that is mostly about Beethoven, which is a screwy sort of thing for Perspectives to do, but it was tied into my thinking about some more recent music, so I was grateful for that (Mead 2009). But in terms of articles that it has published . . . Oh, I would go back to David Lewin’s article on the Schoenberg Violin Concerto (1967), Babbitt’s incredible article on rhythm and the electronic medium (1962). These were articles that were foundations for everything I have thought about since, pretty much. Well, maybe not everything, but an awful lot. And then there have been loads of other articles since. I remember in graduate school, getting out volumes of Perspectives from the library and reading them from cover to cover, and there were so many things that were interesting, by so many people who meant an awful lot to me in my musical life. VANDAGRIFF: It sounds like one of the things you really value in the magazine—which I associate with Ben Boretz, though I believe this is probably true of everyone that has worked for the magazine, and please correct me if I am wrong—is that it is very inclusionary. By that I mean that you can read a lot of different things, from a lot of different perspectives, in Perspectives. 114 History of Perspectives MEAD: Yes. I was remarking to my younger son yesterday, that if human beings do it, it is probably going to be interesting. That seems to be an attitude that the journal, whether it has been under Ben or anybody else, has pretty much stayed with. VANDAGRIFF: How did that influence you when you were associate editor? What specifically did you do as associate editor, and how did your belief in that aspect of the magazine affect your job? MEAD: I think that made all five of us open to different perspectives . . . . Ah there you go! That word again! VANDAGRIFF: Yes, it is hard...

Determinants of job satisfaction among shift workers: a case study of Ferro-alloy industries in Orissa

The primary objective of this study is to ascertain the levels of job satisfaction experienced amongst employees at five Ferro-alloy industries in Orissa, India. For the purpose of this study, a quantitative (non-probabilistic) sampling design was used to assess the information on job satisfaction parameters. The sample group (N= 240) consisted of male and female staff members working on a rotational shift roster in five Ferro-alloy industries. A biographical questionnaire and the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) questionnaire were administered to gather the required information. This study measures job satisfaction in terms of five important job facets, namely, pay, promotions, supervision, co-workers and the work itself. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data to find out the important determinants of job satisfaction among shift workers.