| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 交通管理學系 === 88 === This study seeks to investigate the relations among job characteristics, personalities, and job satisfaction from a Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau (KHB) employee’s perception. The dimension of job characteristics consisted of five items, namely, autonomy, task identity, task importance, and skill variety, while locus of control, achievement orientation , authoritarianism, machiavellianism, and risk taking where used as five components of the dimension of personalities. In addition, the dimension of job satisfaction comprised two items. These were: internal satisfaction and external satisfaction.
In particular, the dimension of personality was used as an exogenous variable to examine its effects on job characteristics and job satisfaction, and the effect of job characteristics on job satisfaction. This research was done by means of a review of previous studies and personal interview; data collection has also included a questionnaire survey. A structural equation modeling, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Scheffe test were conducted in this research.
This study indicated that there were a positive relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction, employee personalities and job characteristics at 0.05 level of a statistical significance. Conversely, the variable of employee personalities was found negatively related to the level of job satisfaction in the model. This paper has provided a general framework for the identification of critical factors for escalating an employee’s job satisfaction. The use of this framework could be a useful approach for port practitioners to evaluate their employee’s performance. However, this study only focused on the effect of job characteristics and employee personalities on satisfaction. Another worthwhile direction for future research is necessary to consider the influence of the other variables (e.g., corporate culture and managerial style etc.).
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