IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sgm/pzwzuw/v9i34ay2011p162-180.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Chosen factors affecting employees' satisfaction (Wybrane czynniki ksztaltujace satysfakcje pracownika)

Author

Listed:
  • Agnieszka Springer

    (Katedra Organizacji i Zarzadzania, Wyzsza Szkola Bankowa w Poznaniu)

Abstract

Article focuses on issues of employees' satisfaction with particular attention to the importance of analysis of factors influencing it. The paper presents an analysis of classical and contemporary literature associated with satisfaction, as part of employee attitudes. In addition to the literature, the article presents the results of original self research. The research was conducted on a sample of 468 responders representing working age population in the Poznan district. The research results indicate that the level of wages and employment stability is the most important element as far as employees' satisfaction is concerned. For other factors, workers have difficulty with indicating factors which are more or less important for them. Among the demographic variables only age and level of education differentiate the importance of the analyzed factors. The research shows that the values declared by employees also influence the satisfaction shaping process. The workplace is the most differentiating factor. Executive employees, professionals and managers, differ because of the hierarchy of the factors influencing their satisfaction.

Suggested Citation

  • Agnieszka Springer, 2011. "Chosen factors affecting employees' satisfaction (Wybrane czynniki ksztaltujace satysfakcje pracownika)," Problemy Zarzadzania, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, vol. 9(34a), pages 162-180.
  • Handle: RePEc:sgm:pzwzuw:v:9:i:34a:y:2011:p:162-180
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/artykuly/pz_4_2011-1_springer.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: http://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/en
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ijae, 2002. "Reviews in Brief," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 57(2), June.
    2. Ijae, 2002. "Reviews in Brief," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 57(1), March.
    3. Federica Origo & Laura Pagani, 2008. "Workplace flexibility and job satisfaction: some evidence from Europe," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 29(6), pages 539-566, September.
    4. Clark, Andrew E. & Oswald, Andrew J. & Warr, Peter B., 1994. "Is job satisfaction u-shaped in age ?," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Couverture Orange) 9407, CEPREMAP.
    5. Ijae, 2002. "Reviews in Brief," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 57(4), December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ahmed RG, 2018. "Maternal Hypothyroidism and Sensorineural Disability," Global Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 5(4), pages 92-95, April.
    2. Mark Kunze & James Phillips, 2011. "The Influence Of Employee Affect On Leader-Member Exchange And Perceptions Of Psychological Contract Violation," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(3), pages 1-23.
    3. Trabucco, Antonio & Bossio, Deborah & van Stratten, O., 2008. "Carbon sequestration, land degradation and water," IWMI Books, Reports H041595, International Water Management Institute.
    4. Zvi H. Aronson & Aaron J. Shenhar & Wang Wenzhou, 2014. "The Effect of Vision, Artifacts, and Leader Values on Contextual Performance Behavior and Success in Technology Challenging Projects: Qualitative Evidence," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 11(06), pages 1-26.
    5. Maria Isabel Camio, 2014. "El rol de los aspectos emocionales en la gestión de la cultura innovadora," Revista Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, vol. 0(2), pages 9-28, December.
    6. José Manuel Lasierra & José Alberto Molina & Raquel Ortega, 2016. "How does work management improve job satisfaction? Evidence from Spain," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 36(2), pages 1202-1213.
    7. Seunghee Yu & Chung Choe, 2021. "Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(6), pages 1-16, June.
    8. Blanchflower, David G. & Oswald, Andrew J., 2008. "Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(8), pages 1733-1749, April.
    9. Nattavudh Powdthavee, 2005. "Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 72(287), pages 531-547, August.
    10. Jolanda Hessels & José María Millán & Concepción Román, 2015. "The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 15-047/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
    11. Lionel WILNER, 2019. "The Dynamics of Individual Happiness," Working Papers 2019-18, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.
    12. Andrew Clark & Fabien Postel-Vinay, 2009. "Job security and job protection," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 61(2), pages 207-239, April.
    13. Gennaro Punzo & Rosalia Castellano & Mirko Buonocore, 2018. "Job Satisfaction in the “Big Four” of Europe: Reasoning Between Feeling and Uncertainty Through CUB Models," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 139(1), pages 205-236, August.
    14. Rodrigo Montero & Diego Vásquez, 2015. "Job Satisfaction and Reference Wages: Evidence for a Developing Country," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 16(6), pages 1493-1507, December.
    15. Wunder, Christoph, 2016. "Working hours mismatch and well-being: comparative evidence from Australian and German panel data," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145544, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    16. Damiano Fiorillo & Nunzia Nappo, 2014. "Job satisfaction in Italy: individual characteristics and social relations," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 41(8), pages 683-704, August.
    17. Francesco Bartolucci & Aleksandra Baschina & Giovanni S. F. Bruno & Olga Demidova & Marcello Signorelli, 2015. "Determinants of Job Satisfaction in Young Russian Workers," Discussion Papers 7_2015, CRISEI, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy.
    18. Andrew E. Clark, 2006. "A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration," Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 52(4), pages 291-308.
    19. McKay, Andy & Newell, Andrew T. & Rienzo, Cinzia, 2018. "Job Satisfaction among Young Workers in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis," IZA Discussion Papers 11380, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    20. Terence C. Cheng & Nattavudh Powdthavee & Andrew J. Oswald, 2017. "Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well‐being: Results from Four Data Sets," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 127(599), pages 126-142, February.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sgm:pzwzuw:v:9:i:34a:y:2011:p:162-180. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/somuwpl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.