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an be taken as a summation of employee's feelings in four important areas.” These are:

1. Job-nature of work (dull, dangerous, interesting), hours of work, fellow workers, opportunities on the job for promotion and advancement (prospects), overtime regulations, interest in work, physical environment, and machines and tools.

2. Management- supervisory treatment, participation, rewards and punishments, praises and blames, leaves policy and favoritism.

3. Social relations- friends and associates, neighbors, attitudes towards people in community, participation in social activity socialibility and caste barrier.

4. Personal adjustment-health and emotionality.

Job satisfaction is an indicator of employee productivity and employee behavior at work. This may include inter employee relations, pro-activeness of employee, employee absenteeism & no. of feedbacks from employees. These all factors are a direct measure of employee satisfaction of the job. The direct correlation has been established by earlier researchers and moreso there is logical evidence to it in any business or industry.

The higher levels of job satisfaction is evident in an organization through lower absenteeism rates, low employee turnover, high employee productivity , proactively level of employees, labor unrest issues and participation in managerial decisions. Obviously, every organization desires for higher levels of employee job satisfaction; however it is a long drawn process with continuous improvement and direct focus from the senior Leadership team of the organization.

Job satisfaction cannot be used interchangeably with organizational morale; which the possessions of feeling have being accepted by and belonging to a group of employees through adherence to common goals and confidence in desirability of these goals.

Morale is the by-product of the group, while job satisfaction is more an individual state of mind.

DEFINITIONS OF JOB SATISFACTION

Different authors give various definitions of job satisfaction. Some of them are taken from the book of D.M. Pestonjee “Motivation and Job Satisfaction” which are given below:

As per Weiss, “Job satisfaction is defined as a pleasurable, emotional, state resulting from appraisal of one's job. “An effective reaction to one's job.”

For Blum and Naylor, “Job satisfaction is general attitude, which is the result of many specific attitudes in three areas namely”:

1. Precise occupation features.

2. Personal distinctiveness

3. Group association exterior from the work

According to Glimmer, “Job satisfaction is defined, as it is result of various attitudes the person hold towards the job, towards the related factors and towards the life in general.”

Job satisfaction is defined as “any contribution, psychological, physical, and environmental circumstances that cause a person truthfully say, I am satisfied with my job.”

Mr. Smith stated, “Job satisfaction is defined, as employee's judgment of how well his job on a whole is satisfying his various needs”

According to Locke, “Job satisfaction is defined as a pleasurable or positive state of mind resulting from appraisal of one's job or job experiences.”

HISTORY OF JOB SATISFACTION

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