Talk:Job satisfaction

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I will like to contribute

Hello I am here because as a class project I have to contribute to articles in wikipedia. I will like to contribute your subtitle Personality. Check out the sandbox to see what I want to add. Thanks in advance. Sandbox Personality

Ant N York (talk) 19:13, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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what are the policies of job satisfaction? what are the elements of job satisfaction? how can job satisfaction be derived? what are the likely research instrument? Questionaires on job satisfaction. Literature on job satisfaction. Research question on job satisfaction.

Considering deleting statement about the JGI

I am an Industrial Organizational Psychology student, and am writing a paper that involves job satisfaction. I wrote one the previous semester as well. I read a number of articles and never came across the JGI until now. A search on EBSCO Host and Google Scholar turns up very little relevant info, and I could not find a validity or reliability study or a study comparing it to the JDI. Unless someone can provide a citation then I am going to remove the part about it being better than the JDI. While the JDI does have problems, it has been studied numerous times and so we know much about its limitations, as I said, I've never seen anything on the JGI, and I couldn't find any information in a few quick searches. Any objections? Edit: 4/1 With a bit of luck I've found out it's called the Job in General Scale (I was searching for Index). Once I get some more time to investigate I will update this post.14:06, 30 March 2010 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Kelly 78 (talk • contribs)

Deleted Advertisement

External link "Are You Satisfied?" was to a DeVry recruiting site. Link deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.121.43.63 (talk) 03:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Odd statement

Found this near the bottom of the page. "An important finding for employers is that job satisfaction has very low correlation to productivity on the job. A recent meta-analysis found an average correlation between satisfaction and productivity to be r=.17." What does this mean? Are we supposed to take this to mean that job satisfaction does not matter? It seems too centered around employers in the first place (r=.17.? HUH?) so I'm just going to delete it unless there are any objections. Kennard2 02:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Objection. I'm restoring this information. The text you deleted is important, as often it might be assumed that job satisfaction results in increased productivity. However, this results indicates that the correlation between job satisfaction and productivity is 0.17. This indicates that higher satisfaction IS ASSOCIATED with higher productivity, and empirically proven to do so. Note that this correlation is an association and does not imply that satisfaction causes increased productivity: Equally, increased productivity might cause increased satisfaction, and probably does in some circumstances. There are numerous ways that this information is practically useful, and should remain in the article (however, it should also be cited). Will replace the deleted content, as per that at 15:32, December 18, 2006 by User:141.140.249.1(oldid=95037252) Skittled 10:35, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

If it's important data, then it's just as important to make sure it's accurate and comprehensible to the general public... Most people don't know what an r-index is, myself included. That's why I deleted it--I couldn't make sense of it and wondered exactly which employees they were referring to.

Right. What's an R-index, and why is it important? Otherwise, this whole thing will stay a big question mark.

(I'm thinking this data just needs to be put into another form... Something self-explanatory like "1 out of 5 employees" or something.)

The other issue is that citation issue. It's a weasel word by definition--there's no info on who said this about employees, so it could be another Wiki author trying to dress up an opinion in a fact's clothes. How can you be sure that what they're saying is true?
Kennard2 23:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

what is job? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.158.97.106 (talk) 16:53, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Too technical?

I disagree that the article is too technical. I have only personal (not personnel) experience to rely upon and the article makes sense to me. I've done a bit of copy editing on it as the statistics were a bit techy, and some of the article reads like it has been edited and re-edited until the contributor's eyes have glazed over. It's not perfect yet, but I think the tag should go. Wikiwayman (talk) 16:13, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I agree and am removing the tag. It isn't even close to being too technical to understand. Guy Macon 20:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

JDI as it's own article?

Why does the Job Descriptive Index redirect to this article? The JDI is a specific instrument that, although mentioned in the article, probably merits its own article rather than a redirect. Moreover, there are many other measures of Job Satisfaction and from what I can tell, none redirect here. I am proposing the creation of a separate JDI article, and your feedback is appreciated. I am going to assign a student to begin the process. More information on the JDI can be found here: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/psych/io/jdi/index.html Mjtagler (talk) 19:41, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

That could be a good idea. Sometimes redirects are made simply because there was no article to hand and nobody was about to write one, so it's easier just to send readers to a closely related concept... looking at the sources, I'm confident that an article on the JDI would pass the notability guideline. bobrayner (talk) 20:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the speedy feedback. Question: When the student is ready to start the JDI article, how do they remove the redirect? Thanks. Mjtagler (talk) 21:28, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

You can edit the redirect like any other article: just replace the "#REDIRECT" keyword with your text (and categories and templates and everything else that makes a new article). This could also be done in reverse, if you ever want to merge articles. bobrayner (talk) 10:25, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Any Help would be appreciated

Hello everyone, I am an IO Psychology Student who is taking on the task of fixing this page up and hopefully to get it a better status. While my group and I have a few ideas on what needs to be changed or added, it would be awesome if anyone had some critiques as well. You can message me on my talk page or through this page itself. Thanks for the help! Tbalbertson (talk) 21:21, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

One idea is to remove dead links and adding enough data into the job satisfaction page about those dead topics. Tbalbertson (talk) 21:40, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

• It might not be a good idea to remove all redlinks. In the long term, good redlinks can help the encyclopædia grow; if we don't have a separate article on the Job Characteristics Model now and if we don't feel like writing one, the redlink might encourage somebody else to create it next year.
• At the moment the article is a bit of a patchwork. None of it is really bad, but the "Superior-Subordinate Communication" section uses Harvard-esque citations instead of inline citations; the "Relationships and practical implications" section has some nice detail but the statistics may be inaccessible to lay readers; a few sections give the impression that they're based on the conclusions of one particular paper/book and maybe they could be broadened a little, and so on.
• More importantly, what do you think needs fixing? Feel free to put a "to do" list on this talkpage. bobrayner (talk) 09:26, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello I am trying to contribute to the topic with "Job satisfaction and Absenteeism". Please review my sand box through this link and tell me any critique or comments. Thank you ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aaleksanian/Personal_sandbox

Aaleksanian (talk) 20:15, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

To do list for Ball State IO student group

Add things to be done, strikethrough accomplished items.

Edits/Revisions

• Create a more detailed and concise summary --Aestuo333 (talk) 19:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
• Remove irrelevant dead links
• Fix citation style in "Superior-Subordinate Communication" section
• Fix citation style in "Communication Overload and Communication Underload" section
• Generalize/explain the statistics under "Relationships and Practical Implications" to be understandable to readers without statistical experience.
• Review "Models of job satisfaction" subsections

Additions

• Add a "Factors That Influence Job Satisfaction" section with subsections devoted to biological and environmental influences on job satisfaction
• Place "Superior-Subordinate Communication" section under "Factors That Influence Job Satisfaction".
• Place "Communication Overload..." section under "Factors That Influence Job Satisfaction".
• Place "Emotion" section under "Factors That Influence Job Satisfaction.
• Create subsection of "Factors That Influence..." regarding genetic factors.
• Create redirect to Job Descriptive Index
• Add brief subsections under "Measuring Job Satisfaction" for the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ), the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), and the Faces Scale.

Resources:

• http://www.slideshare.net/virgiliocalusin01/joward

Valric (talk) 18:59, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Peer review etc.

Hi,

• Some new sources have been added, and new content has built on these. The discrepancy-theory and opponent process theory sections are nice additions. I'm not an SME but I did some spot-checks and the text generally seemed to be saying exactly the same as the underlying source.
• Alas, the "history" section is still unsourced. This is a shame as it has a lot of potential - the history of Taylorism, the Hawthorne effect, &c is quite interesting. Maybe even a little Weber? Who knows, maybe there's some mention of job satisfaction in more classical literature (the fashion for Sun Tzu has probably passed but I daresay it's mentioned in one of the mirrors-for-princes).
• You've done a good job of discussing several theories, but I think it could be possible to compare/contrast them rather than treating them as standalone sections.
• The presentation is OK. Not great, but OK. Reasonable layout, a handful of grammar or typo problems. (Ie. "Hertzberg", or the genetics study oscillating between present and past tense)
• The wording generally sticks quite closely to what sources say, sentence by sentence, which is great for accuracy of course, but a side-effect is that an article built in a patchwork like this can be a struggle for readers. It might be a good idea to try slimming down some of the wording, breaking it up, or doing anything else you could think of to improve readability.
• Some sources have been used repeatedly; that's not a problem in itself, but the references list starts to look rather repetitive unless you name and reuse refs in the same way as the Hackman & Oldham or the Stahl one.
• Have you tried exploring other kinds of sources? The "core" of the article is built on the right kind of sources, but maybe less-academic books or even other media could provide some nice little details. Case-studies from particular industries &c could be very helpful.

Have fun,
bobrayner (talk) 17:55, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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Race

Hi, my name isJasmine R. B. and I am apart of Psychology I/O, Spring, 2013 provided by York College taught by my professor, Dr. Ashton. As a part of our class assignment we are required to make an edit on a Wikipedia article that strikes our interest, as well as things we think needed to be added to the article. Here is a link to my sandbox(/sandbox MsPsychology Sandbox), I wanted to add additional information to your article regarding Race. --MsPsychology (talk) 18:04, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Killed this addition -- no citations were given. Thanlis (talk) 22:33, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Equity Theory

hello i am taking part in a psychology class this semester where we must making edits on wiki pages involving matters of i/o psychology. I found a section on your article where i would like to add a little more information to it. I would like if you can take a look at the edit I wish to make and comment with your feedback, thank you. [[1]] DJames5 (talk) 20:05, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

why not in spaznish satisfaction laboral 201.230.189.147 (talk) 21:58, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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Employees that are satisfied with their jobs tend to be more productive. In an analysis of hundreds of studies, it has been found that companies with a high employee satisfaction rating had over 30 percent higher results in productivity and sales, with creativity being three times higher than companies not rated as high in satisfaction . This means that happy employees beget higher profits. Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Mobile, headed by Richard Branson, work well and have a great employee foundation, because they incorporate the idea that if the employee is happy, that happiness goes forward to the customer.

The first half is a misenterpretation of the source, which does have some text on the subject, but is says not what the wikipedian says, and Forbes itself makes unverifiable claim, because the reference it cites does not say what Forbes says - a double whammy. The second half is a shameless promotional plug-in, WP:PEACOCK. Wikipedia does not use promotional bragging of VIPs as a source of information. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:20, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I have another version that references employees of Google, should I use that instead? I don't work for them, either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corneaterman (talk • contribs) 19:15, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

and, is it bragging when it is just discussing a philosophy? He's not talking about how rich he is, just explaining that his customers are taken care of by happy employees. Corneaterman (talk) 19:32, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes, when a VIP talks about his happy employees it is bragging. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:37, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

References

History Section

The history section seemed insignificantly simple. Of course there has to be history on the topic, but it seemed like all the history was woven throughout the rest of the article. For example, past research on the topic was referred to often in the rest of the article. That information should be included in the sections where it was relevant of course, but the history section seems to not contain much substance although there is history on the topic. Ca.craft (talk) 22:15, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Numerical problem in intro

"Spector (1997)[1] lists 14 common facets: Appreciation, Communication, Coworkers, Fringe benefits, Job conditions, Nature of the work, Organization, Personal growth, Policies and procedures, Promotion opportunities, Recognition, Security, and Supervision." Those are 13. What's missing? Cognita (talk) 06:03, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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