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Mastery and acknowledgment of continual improvement of performance is what leads to a growing level of job satisfaction over time.
While job satisfaction is the inward manifestation of an employees' mastery and recognition of continually improving and excelling at their work, motivation is the most outward manifestation of how an employee perceives the value of their work and contributions. As the article states, motivation includes the factors of how an employee chooses to use their time, their intensity of effort, and the persistence level that work is completed at. These are all outward manifestation of someone's job satisfaction, and often are predictors of how much ownership and mastery they feel over their jobs. What makes managing very difficult as a profession is the fact that the underlying motivators of what gets each employee to a level of performance on these factors...
As the article states, one cannot simply offer more money, because for some employees time off, recognition, additional responsibilities, or the opportunity to redefine their job all are more motivating to them. Individuality wins and there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" approach to motivating employees. Each requires a separate and specific strategy as defined by the manager to create as much opportunity to excel and attain both ownership and mastery of their jobs as possible. It is the truly great organizations of the world including IBM, GE, Google, Toyota and others that have been able to create unique company cultures that nurture motivation and job satisfaction. As a result, these companies have far greater levels of performance, both from a financial and market-based standpoint directly as a result of how job satisfaction and motivation are managed.
Job Satisfaction There is a distinct difference between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Job satisfaction relates specifically to the job. While this is influenced by organizational factors, the job itself can be satisfactory even when there is little commitment to the organization. Either one can be a source of motivation, but it is important for management of an organization to know which dynamic is at play, and which one might be
Job Satisfaction in Nursing Levels of Job satisfaction in nursing in relation to generational differences The contemporary society has suffered an acute shortage of nurses within the public and the government sponsored hospitals. Indeed the shortage is so intense that it was and still is viewed as one of the impediments that stand on the way of fully experiencing the positives of the Obama Healthcare program that was recently introduced. This has
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment Many people see job satisfaction and organizational commitment as being the same thing, but that is really not the case. They are two different sides to the same coin. Job satisfaction is based on the contentedness level a person experiences with his or her particular job or career (Spector, 1997). There are two different ways to look at the issue of job satisfaction, as well. People
Job Satisfaction in Nursing Related to Generational Differences The research methodology that will be used is the observational research method since it will involve a phenomena being observed and recording of information acquired. It will also be largely qualitative in nature since it will be dealing with attitude on nursing as a career and the effect that the generational gap between the varying generations has on the attrition levels. This method
As pointed out in the Lacy, et al. article (Winter, 2001) in order for accurate conclusions to be drawn about any testable situation there must exist an adequate sample size as well as employing an appropriate sampling structure. Further, according to the authors a sample drawn at random is an unbiased sample in the sense that no member of the population has a greater chance of being selected than
Job Satisfaction in Nursing Related to Generational Differences The proposal is based on the aspect of job satisfaction in the nursing sector taking into account the levels of satisfaction in relation to the age differences or the generational differences. The proposal highlights the major steps that will be followed and the approaches and the tools that will be used in finding out the background reasons causing the attrition in nursing relative