Job satisfaction in Britain: individual and job related factors

By Şaziye Gaziog̃lu, A. Tansel. 2006

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Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the analysis of job satisfaction variables. Job satisfaction is correlated with labour market behaviour such as productivity, quits and absenteeism. In this paper four different measures of job satisfaction are related to a variety of personal and job characteristics. The data used are from the 28 240 British employees in the Workplace Employee Relations Survey, 1997. This data set is larger and more recent than in any previous studies. Four measures of job satisfaction that have not previously been used are considered: satisfaction with influence over job; satisfaction with amount of pay; satisfaction with sense of achievement; and satisfaction with respect from supervisors. The paper contributes to the literature by analysing job satisfaction with respect to industrial composition and occupations. One of the striking findings is that those in the education and health sectors are less satisfied with their pay but more satisfied with their sense of achievement. Further, it is found that employees who received job training were more satisfied than those who had no training opportunities. Unlike previous studies, it is found that married individuals have lower job satisfaction levels than the unmarried. Other results confirm those in the literature, such as women being more satisfied than men, and a U-shaped relationship between satisfaction and age.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. Rob Simmons
2. Alina Petrescu
3. T. Lange
4. I. Verheul
5. Martin A. Carree

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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2. Rob Simmons
3. Alina Petrescu
4. T. Phuong
5. T. Lange
6. I. Verheul
7. Martin A. Carree

In Social Psychology

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3. Rob Simmons
4. Alina Petrescu
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6. T. Lange
7. A. Raziq
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Citations in the corpus

• What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders (2012, background): “Gazioglu and Tansel (2006) also point out that there may be a participation effect, i.e., women are often secondary bread-winner, and may sooner opt for exit when dissatisfied.”
• Job Satisfaction, Employee Loyalty and Job Performance in the Hospitality Industry: A Moderated Model (2020, background): “In addition, revenue in the hospitality industry is mainly contingent upon employee turnover (Gazioglu & Tansel, 2006).”
• Human resource management practices and workers' job satisfaction (2008, background): “See for example Clark (1996), Oswald (1997), Robie et al. (1998), Clark (2001), Bryson et al. (2004) and Gazioglu and Tansel (2006).”
• Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? (2012, background): “…strong predictor for such behaviours as workers’ commitment, motivation, absenteeism, quitting intentions, and other affective responses to aspects of the job or the employer (Cotton and Tuttle 1986; Clark et al. 1998; Judge et al. 2000; Saari and Judge 2004; Gazioglu and Tansel, 2006; Lange 2008).”
• Impact of Working Environment on Job Satisfaction (2015, background): “Further they described the second dimension of job satisfaction known as context comprises of the physical working conditions and the social working conditions (Sousa-Poza & Sousa-Poza, 2000; Gazioglu & Tanselb, 2006; Skalli, Theodossiou, & Vasileiou, 2008).”