Question

As employees (even if we are the CEO we are still considered to be an employee) it is my belief that we are responsible for our own Job Satisfaction. It has always been my hope that my employees were motivated and properly incented to do a great job. In chapter Six, the textbook goes into what motivates employees and some of the theory behind job satisfaction.

identify and briefly describe five alternative causes of job satisfaction. And tell me how a manager you have, or had in the past, determined what was important to you as it related to job satisfaction.

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Job satisfaction is very important for a employee to have when they work in a company either at lower position or bigger position. Job satisfaction is the measure to know that employees are self motivated and satisfied with their current job in the organization.

The causes which can lead to increase job satisfaction in employees are-

Compensation/salary- according to Herzberg theory of motivation, Salary and compensation is the hygiene factor which is not present then employees get satisfied with their job. so attractive compensation is the one cause to have job satisfaction.

Good working conditions- Employees want that they have place where they are safe and secure. they feel relaxed and comfortable so healthy and good working conditions like air condition, proper lighting, ventilation system etc helps employees to have job satifaction.

Support of management- employee who feels that their management is biased and not supportive then even though they get good salary but this factor if lower then job satisfaction is low so support of managment helps to increase job satisfaction.

Opportunity to grow- according to mashlow theory, people at self actualization stage are motivated because they want to grow so employees when get chance of promotion then they stay satisfied with job and wait for chance to promote to another position.

Recognition- when employees in the company do hard work and their performance is recognized and praised my management then they get happy and motivated. this leads to higher performance next time and improve job satisfaction.

In my past job, as employee being a sales executive, the most important to me was recognition and chance of grow because as sales executive my work always to achieve sales target and i do well in that. so i get more motivated when my sales manager and team leader praises me and recognise my achievements. if they do not do that then i think my performance and satisfaction will lower down.

also, i show higher performance so i grow and have a chance to be on promoted position like become team leader of my own sales team in future.

*hope above answer would help you.