Job satisfaction : determinants, workplace implications and impacts on psychological well-being /
Rosalie Osbourne, editor.
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Publishers, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Business issues, competition and entrepreneurship .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Predictors of satisfaction with career and compensation among physicians in a multispecialty academic practice / Job satisfaction and well-being among university workers / Determinants of job satisfaction : living one's calling as a neglected predictor? / A new approach to understanding the dynamics of job satisfaction / It is your interest that matters : motivation shapes career engagement patterns / There is no fear in love : the giving of social support to students enhances teachers' career development / The effect of pay cuts on psychological well-being and job satisfaction / Job and life satisfaction in association with psychological well-being in nursing / Factors determining EFL teachers' job satisfaction in intermediate public schools in the state of Kuwait / Index. Sandhya K. Rao, Sara Lehrhoff, Andrea Litvak, Alexa Kimball, David Torchiana, Timothy G. Ferris, Mass General Physicians Organization, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School -- Pablo González-Rico, Maria José Chambel, Eloísa Guerrero, and Francisco Cesário, Faculty of Education, University of Extremadura, Spain, and others -- Tamara Hagmaier, Andrea E. Abele, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany -- Alexis Bañón-Gomis, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Faculty of Business Administration, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, and others -- Bick-har Lam, Chi-keung Cheng, Zi Yan, Min Yang, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education -- Bick-har Lam, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education -- Stavros A. Drakopoulos, Katerina Grimani, University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Athens, Greece -- Mateja Lorber, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia -- Wafaa Salem Al-Yaseen, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Kuwait University, Kifan, Kuwait --
Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational outcomes. Work is the number one activity that occupies most of adults' waking time. Being satisfied with one's job, which is defined as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experience, is related to important work-related and health-related outcomes (e.g., higher job performance, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, life satisfaction, lower absenteeism and lower count.