Job satisfaction in Britain: individual and job related factors

Download

index.pdf

Date

2006-06-10

Author

Gazioglu, S
Tansel, Aysıt

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

219
views

1207
downloads

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.

Subject Keywords

Age, Unions, Wages, Well

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/62522

Journal

APPLIED ECONOMICS

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500392987

Collections

Department of Economics, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Fault detection and diagnosis in nonlinear dynamical systems Kılıç, Erdal; Leblebicioğlu, Mehmet Kemal; Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2005) The aim of this study is to solve Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) problems occurring in nonlinear dynamical systems by using model and knowledge-based FDD methods and to give a priority and a degree about faults. For this purpose, three model-based FDD approaches, called FDD by utilizing principal component analysis (PCA), system identification based FDD and inverse model based FDD are introduced. Performances of these approaches are tested on different nonlinear dynamical systems starting from simple t...
Vocational Interests toward complex occupations make a difference in STEM work life. Toker, Yonca (2018-04-19) The STEM Interest Complexity Measure, measuring interests toward complex tasks under the realistic and investigative work environments, was investigated with employed engineering-scientist and technol-ogist-technician samples. Interest levels were higher for the higher complexity engineering-scientist sample. Interest and work criteria associations were again higher for the high-complexity sample.
Information technology, workplace organization and demand for new kinds of skill Gürsoy, Serkan; Erdil, Erkan; Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies (2003) This study examines the relations among information technology (IT), workplace organization and the demand for skilled labor. Recently, demand for skilled labor has relatively increased. One of the causes of this great increase is skill- biased technical change. Firms that are intensive users of IT tend to adopt a complementary set of organizational practices that include: decentralization of decision authority and a greater reliance on skill arid human capital. I have explored the affects of IT on skill an...
Industry specific information content of financial ratios and financial distress modeling Sayarı, Naz; Oran, Adil; Muğan, Fatma Naciye Can; Department of Business Administration (2013) The aim of this study is to investigate uncertainty levels of industries and explore those financial ratios that have the highest information content in determining the set of industry characteristics and use the most informative ratios selected in developing industry specific financial distress models. First, we employ factor analysis to determine the set of ratios that are most informative in specified industries. Second, we use entropy method as a Multiple Attribute Decision Making Model, to measure the ...
Capturing knowledge in construction projects: Knowledge platform for contractors Kivrak, Serkan; Arslan, Gokhan; Dikmen Toker, İrem; Birgönül, Mustafa Talat (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2008-04-01) Managing knowledge effectively is critical to the survival and advance of a company, especially in project-based industries such as construction. However, capturing knowledge in construction projects is a tedious task, as knowledge is usually experience based, tacit, and hard to pass on to others. In this study, a survey was carried out among eight leading Turkish construction contractors that are operating within the international construction market. The specific objectives of this survey are to find out ...

Citation Formats

S. Gazioglu and A. Tansel, “Job satisfaction in Britain: individual and job related factors,” APPLIED ECONOMICS, pp. 1163–1171, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/62522.