A comparative study on job satisfaction in large and small size enterprises

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Atasoy, Tuba

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This thesis aims to find out the job satisfaction level in large and small enterprises by founding on Locke̕s model and to compare job satisfaction levels. Although, Locke̕s job satisfaction model includes many dimensions, it is lack of some variables, which are very important for sociology. In order to fill this gap, demographical information and status in the work place have ben added within variables. Consequently, job satisfaction levels of workers who work in large and small size enterprises in different status (white collar, blue collar) and who comes from different demographical structures have been determined; additionally, their expectations from work and their point of views about the work have been tried to understand. In order to reach these findings, a field research, which took approximately 10 months, has been conducted in a large and a small enterprise. Field research has been conducted by applying questionnaire for 64 questions to 85 people. However, some of important information about the work place has been found as consequence of depth interviews done with respondents. While social rights in large enterprises and image of the enterprise effect the job satisfaction positively, in small enterprises social environment and behavior to the workers are important. To get homogeneous answers are easy in large enterprises; because, changes like promotion, increase of salaries are done within a system and formal; which is permanent is not people but the works. However, answers and results are heterogeneous in small enterprises because works are done within informal relations by attaching to people. Whatever the size of the enterprise, as qualifications of the work and educational level increase, as expectations increase and to get satisfaction from the work becomes difficult. On the other hand, most difficult part of conducting this research in Turkey is

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General Social Sciences.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605305/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14546

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T. Atasoy, “A comparative study on job satisfaction in large and small size enterprises,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.