Search results for "Job Satisfaction"

The job satisfaction of English teachers in Finnish elementary, middle and upper secondary schools

2011

Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, mitkä asiat vaikuttavat englanninopettajien työtyytyväisyyteen ja -tyytymättömyyteen ja miten englanninopettajien mukaan työtyytyväisyyttä voitaisiin kehittää. Aineisto kerättiin haastattelemalla yhdeksää alakoulun, yläkoulun sekä lukion englanninopettajaa. Haastattelut toteutettiin nauhoitettuina puolistrukturoituina teemahaastatteluina, jotka litteroitiin. Aineisto analysoitiin teemoittelemalla. Opettajien työkokemusten määrät vaihtelivat suuresti, mikä teki aineistosta moninaisen. Tulokset osoittivat, että englanninopettajat ovat pääsääntöisesti tyytyväisiä työhönsä. Yleisesti ottaen työtyytyväisyys koostui työn sosiaalisuudesta, vuorovaikutuksest…

English language teachers' job satisfaction in upper secondary schools in Finland

2009

 Opettajien työtyytyväisyyttä on yleisesti ottaen tutkittu jonkin verran, mutta tiettyjen kouluaineiden opettajien työtyytyväisyyteen ei ole kiinnitetty huomiota juuri lainkaan. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää englannin opettajien työtyytyväisyyden tasoa suomalaisissa lukioissa. Tutkielma perustuu Herzbergin määritelmään työtyytyväisyydestä sekä hänen teoriaansa siitä, mitkä tekijät työssä koetaan tyydyttäviksi ja mitkä epätyydyttäviksi (motivation-hygiene theory). Tutkimus toteutettiin kyselytutkimuksena sähköpostitse, ja siihen osallistui 10 englannin kielen lukio-opettajaa eri puolilta Suomea. Tutkimuskyselykaavake oli kaksiosainen. Ensimmäinen osa sisälsi 10 avokysymystä, …

Teachers of English in Finnish upper secondary general school and their job satisfaction

2005

Are Happy Workers More Productive? The Mediating Role of Service-Skill Use

2020

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between happiness at work and cross-selling performance in the banking sector. In addition, the mediating effect of service-skill use is analyzed in the relationship between happiness at work and performance. Confirmatory factor analysis is used by means of structural equation models to assess the relationship between happiness at work, service-skill use, and cross-selling performance. A sample of 492 financial service employees is examined. Results reveal that happiness at work positively and directly affects cross-selling performance. The study also shows that service-skill use plays a partial mediating role in the relationship betw…

The Cross-level Relationship Between Organizational Trust in Leadership and Job Satisfaction

2020

Previous research has rarely addressed trust in leadership at the organizational level. This study addresses this research gap by examining the influence of the magnitude of organizational trust in leadership and consensus about this trust on job satisfaction. The magnitude refers to shared trust in leadership among organizational members, whereas consensus captures the variability in perceptions within organizations, even when overall agreement exists. Moreover, the study examines the mediating role of perceived communication quality in the relationship between the magnitude of organizational trust in leadership and job satisfaction. The sample was composed of 486 employees of 34 transport…

Job satisfaction mediates the association between perceived leadership styles and early retirement intentions

2016

The ageing of the population is particularly challenging for the healthcare sector, which is at the same time facing a nursing shortage. Therefore, improving work conditions and well-being at work in order to prolong nurses’ careers and retention in their profession until retirement age has become one of the key issues of healthcare leaders and policymakers. This study tested a structural model linking nurses’ perceived leadership styles and early retirement intentions. We tested the model in a sample of 343 nurses at one Finnish university hospital. It was hypothesized that the relationship between perceived leadership styles and early retirement intentions would be mediated by job satisfa…

Drivers of job-related learning among low-educated employees in the Nordic countries

2018

This study explored drivers of participation in job-related lifelong learning (LLL) among low-educated mature-aged employees and compared them across four Nordic countries. Workplaces can be low-threshold, effective arenas for development of their skills in work and learning. The paper builds on the Bounded Agency Model and theories of learning motivation, human capital, and workplace learning. We used data from the Survey of Adult Skills (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The average participation rate was 36%. Results of the logistic regression analyses showed that income, skills use at work, sector…

Emotion Eliciting Events in the Workplace: An Intercultural Comparison

2007

Different emotional experiences at the work place are evaluated in respect to their influence on job satisfaction. A sample of 75 Japanese employees and 169 German employees rated their emotional level following daily hassles in the work place that were attributed on the two dimensions: locus of causality and controllability. It was predicted that the same attribution pattern of daily hassles leads to different emotional responses and different levels of job satisfaction between employees with an interdependent and independent cultural background. Results indicate that equal attribution patterns of job related daily hassles lead to different emotional experiences between the two cultural gr…

Supervisor leadership style, employee regulatory focus, and leadership performance: A perspectivism approach

2019

[EN] Drawing on regulatory focus theory, this research proposes that transformational leadership performance depends on followers' circumstances. The analysis of 125 people from two Spanish service firms reveals that, apart from transformational leadership, the presence of academic education, intrinsic job satisfaction and high customer contact, and the absence of family responsibilities, are core conditions for the presence of high leadership performance. The first contribution of this study is the direct inference of follower's regulatory focus from the observation of individuals' circumstances. The second contribution is that leaders should consider followers' circumstances to adopt a su…

Job Satisfaction of Fitness Professionals in Portugal: A Comparative Study of Gender, Age, Professional Experience, Professional Title, and Education…

2021

This research characterizes and compares the job satisfaction of fitness professionals in Portugal between genders, ages, professional experience, professional title, and educational qualifications. A total of 401 fitness professionals answered the online questionnaire Job Satisfaction Scale, which has 16 factors rated on a Likert scale with seven levels. The statistical analysis comprises descriptive and statistical tests to compare the results of two (t-test) or more (ANOVA) groups. Overall, the results demonstrated that fitness professionals were moderately satisfied with their work. The lower degrees of job satisfaction were concerning salary, opportunities for promotion, and stability …