The Importance Of Job Satisfaction

Did you know people spend about 92,120 hours of their life working, meaning that people could spend almost half of their lifetime being unsatisfied with their job? Accordingly, job satisfaction is a very important concept to understand and assess in order to have a pleasant lifetime while working. Job Satisfaction can be identified as the employee’s positive or negative feelings towards their work, not referring exactly to the company they might be working for. A formal concept by the Cambridge Dictionary would state that job satisfaction is “the feeling of pleasure and achievement that you experiment in your job when you know your work is worth doing or the degree to which your work gives you this feeling.” Many types of research state the

P. Spector in his Job Satisfaction: Application, assessment, causes, and consequences argued that individuals who are satisfied with their job report greater psychological well-being, life satisfaction, higher commitment and physical health. Job satisfaction is one of the goals many companies try to achieve as it is necessary when managers try to improve job performance which by definition means more revenues and well-being. Employee job satisfaction has been improving over the last three years and in the year 2015, 88% of the U.S. employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job, making the highest level of satisfaction over the last 10 years. (refer to table

Through consultation and cognitive testing process, the AWRS asked employees to rate their satisfaction level through a seven-point scale; 1 indicating their complete dissatisfaction and 7 indicating their greatest satisfaction. The average overall job satisfaction of employees by employment size indicates the overall results taken from the different testing processes (refer to table 1.1). The final results of the assessment indicate that the major job satisfaction was identified when employees had the “flexibility to balance work and non-work commitments”. This can largely explain that a great amount of the workforce values when a company grants the ability to balance their work with other outside commitments including their family and personal