How Job Satisfaction is Influenced by Work Place Environment: An Empirical Study
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https://doi.org/10.54741/mjar.3.5.6Keywords:
job satisfaction, communications, employees, opportunities, public sectorAbstract
This study refers to how job characteristics, work environment, pay satisfaction, and advancement opportunities influence employee’s job satisfaction. The study results showed that job clarity, effective communications with management, a participatory management approach, organizational support of career development, opportunities for advancement, and family-friendly policies are all significant variables affecting the job satisfaction of employees. The effect of pay satisfaction on employee job satisfaction was not significant. This study also found gender differences in factors affecting employee’s job satisfaction.
The purpose of this research was to measure the effect of work motivation on employee job satisfaction in Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (MVVNL), Lucknow. A Self-administered questionnaire consisting of several measures was employed to gather data from the technical and supporting employees who work in different sections of the MVVNL like the distribution, maintenance, office, area chief engineer and sub Stores of Lucknow. The gathered data were utilized to test the model using the PLS-SEM approach with Smart PLS. The results showed that the essential features of work motivation are manager’s leadership styles, motivation practices, employee job expectations, reward management system and working environment, whereas the identified consequence was employee job satisfaction. All five variables had a positive effect on job satisfaction and among them, employee job expectations and manager’s leadership style had the highest influence and the reward management system had the least influence on job satisfaction. Further, this study offers thoughts for managers by pinpointing the critical factors influencing that motivate employees in MVVNL.
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