Pros And Cons Of Job Dissatisfaction

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Job Dissatisfaction While serving one’s country is looked highly upon and each person has their own reason to enlist into the military. What I have found since enlisting in the Air Force job dissatisfaction is a huge problem in my unit. I have just recently reached my 3-year mark that I have been assigned to this unit and since the day I reported into the unit I have encountered both types of people, enthused/content about their job and the opposite people who hate their job and want to get out as soon as possible. Each person has their own story and why they joined but the common reasons that people seem to be getting out of the Air Force at lease in my unit is job dissatisfaction. According to Robbins and Judge, “Job satisfaction describes a positive feeling about a job, resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics.” (pg. 79). With job satisfaction lacking in my unit many are looking to separate from the military to find a job where they will get the satisfaction that they are looking for whether that is going back to school or just starting another career. According to Semih, “Although several aspects of job satisfaction have been studied extensively in the empirical …show more content…

According to Robbins and Judge, “Job involvement measures the degree to which people identify psychologically with their job and consider their perceived performance level important to self-worth.” (Pg. 79). Feeling no self-worth in a company will make employees look for jobs elsewhere and it is no different in the military. If a member feels they are not contributing or what they are doing is not getting noticed they will not reenlist. The dissatisfaction with their job and a lack of job involvement the raises an issue that it will rub off on new incoming Airman. With so many members leaving and getting out retention has been an increasing

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