Job Satisfaction: Analysis of the Institute of Public Administration

Abstract

Job satisfaction is a measure of how happy employees are with their jobs and the environment around them. There are certainly several factors affecting an employee’s happiness. Job satisfaction differs from one employee to another; some employees may view a high salary as something that provides job satisfaction, some may see that job satisfaction is achieved through the availability of training and education opportunities, and some may focus on the psychological aspect of the job. Spector, in his book “Job Satisfaction: Application, Assessment, Causes, and Consequences” published in (1997), defined job satisfaction as all the feelings that a given individual has about their job and its various aspects. Furthermore, Moyes et al (2008) agreed with Spector that job satisfaction may be described as how pleased an employee is with his or her position of employment, environment, etc. The purpose of this article is to achieve the following: