Factors affecting Job Satisfaction

Sometimes we may feel after having dinner from a restaurant, we are not satisfied with it. If it is so, we will be frustrated and feel it is not good. Next time we will not take dinner from the particular restaurant. There may be several reasons for that. The arrangement of food, taste, how it is being served, cost is the factors that we got dissatisfied with the dinner. The example can be related with job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is the inner or psychological feeling of factors that lead a person to do his tasks. If one is not satisfied in his job, we can say that there is some problem with him or with the job. The factors affecting job satisfaction are as follows.

 What is your education level? This is the question always raised, when there is a career interview. A person who has less educated always has to confine to do low profile jobs. People with high profile go high. This difference makes large difference in job satisfaction. An MBA holder always looks a career which opts for him. Instead of that if he gets a career in which a low class educated guy does, surely he will be dissatisfied. Also a question of how old is you come one of the factor? The age factor is crucial when it comes to the job satisfaction. A fresher to an organization always will have certain expectation that leads to high job satisfaction, but when he approaches to middle age, it reduces. Again when he approaches to the retirement stage. The young guys are always tending to more effectively and efficiently. As they reach out an institution after education, they are new and do things with innovative ideas and talent.

What is the job? This question answers the nature of the job one has to perform. This job may be a high level profile or low profile. The low level profile people always show dissatisfaction. Jog content is always a question because it tells the duties and responsibilities one should do. If the duties and responsibilities are comparatively good and getting the recognition in an organization one will be satisfied with that. Also the job environment in which an employee is secure in an organization in terms of physical and employment is another factor. If there is threat of physical damage from machines and equipments, people find difficult to do it. The mining organizations are the highly threat organization. The basic facilities of ventilation, safety, water are ensured not properly. Such organization people won’t prefer to work. The management policies and decisions too play a role in job satisfaction. How a management takes the policies regarding salary, incentives and super vision will affect the satisfaction of employees. If these policies are liberal and favorable to employees they find satisfaction in their job. A highly supervised without labor friendly approach workers tend to move back.