Methods of Measuring Job Satisfaction: A Review of Standardized Scales and Techniques

Job satisfaction is one of the strongest predictors of life satisfaction and job satisfaction is strongly related to life satisfaction, or the degree to which employees feel a sense of happiness with their lives. People feel better about their lives when they feel better about their jobs. This link makes sense when you realize how much of our identity is wrapped up in our jobs.   Job satisfaction plays an important role for the happiness and prosperity of the individuals and the organization that has employed them.  Satisfied employees do a better job of fulfilling the duties described in their job descriptions, and evidence suggests that positive feelings foster creativity, improve problem solving and decision making, and enhance memory and recall of certain kinds of information. Satisfied employees engage in more frequent extra mile behaviors to help their coworkers and their organization. Positive feelings increase their desire to interact with others and often result in spontaneous acts of helping and other instances of good citizenship.  If organization is fail to create job satisfaction it may be suffer many problem from employees like regularly absent on job venue, they may change the job anywhere, negative publicity of organization, improper work etc. For the success of any organization job satisfaction is of vital importance. The organization cannot achieve its goals and targets unless its workforce who constitutes the organization is satisfied with its job.

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