What is Job Satisfaction?

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Job satisfaction is a degree to which employees feel happy about their job. The employees who are satisfied with their jobs are more likely to be motivated to work toward archiving the organizational goals. There are various factors that can influence job satisfaction to employees such as nature of work itself or task, working environment, culture of the company and employees relationship with others at workplace (Pelagyo).

Hackman and Oldham proposed the five characteristics of a job that brings satisfaction to the employees which are skilled variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback.

• Skilled variety: A motivating job must involve various tasks that require variety of skills to perform to avoid monotony that can make employees feel bored.
• Task identity: Involvement of employees in performing the entire identifiable work with visible outcomes. 
• Task significant: How a job is important and how it impacts the life of people within and outside an organization.
• Autonomy: A satisfying job must give employees freedom of decision making and using their own methods to accomplish work.
• Feedback: The employees should be informed about their performance.

Further more, The Hackman and Oldham's theory is based on the idea that the task itself is key to employee's satisfaction and motivation.

Job satisfaction is very important as it can raise employees' motivation, performance and engagement and lead to high productivity and efficiency in an organization.

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