Title: Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction (With Diagram)
Headings: Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction (With Diagram)
Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction (With Diagram)
Definition of Job Satisfaction:
A few definitions of job satisfaction are quoted as follows:
There are three important dimensions to job satisfaction:
Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction:
These factors can be explained with the help of the chart:
These factors can be discussed in detail as follows:
A. Organisational Factors:
Some of the organisational factors which affect job satisfaction are:
1. Salaries and Wages:
2. Promotion Chances:
Promotional chances considerably affect the job satisfaction because of the following reasons:
3. Company Policies:
B. Work Environmental Factors:
The work environmental factors include the following important factors:
1. Supervision:
First is Employee Centeredness:
Second is Participation:
2. Work Group:
The nature of the work group or team will have effect on job satisfaction in the following ways:
3. Working Conditions:
C. Work Itself:
Some of the aspects of the work which affect job satisfaction are:
(i) Job Scope:
(ii) Variety:
(iii) Lack of Autonomy and Freedom:
(iv) Role Ambiguity and Role Conflict:
(v) Interesting Work:
D. Personal Factors:
Some of the important personal factors are:
1. Age and Seniority:
2. Tenure:
3. Personality:

Content: Poor working conditions do become a source of job dissatisfaction. Simply because they lead to physical discomfort and physical danger. Moreover, all the employees are not satisfied or dissatisfied by favourable or unfavourable work environment as shown in the figure given below. As shown in the figure, all the four employees are dissatisfied when the working conditions are unfavourable. However, as the working conditions start becoming favourable, the job satisfaction of employee A and B increases sharply while employees C and D have only minor increase in satisfaction. C. Work Itself: The content of the work itself plays a major role in determining the level of job satisfaction. Some of the aspects of the work which affect job satisfaction are: (i) Job Scope: It provides the amount of responsibility, work pace and feedback.