The Study on the Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction

• Main Authors: Chang Hsin-Lin, 張欣琳
• Other Authors: 郭文般
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63679880060941934208

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 99 === Job satisfaction has been deemed crucial for the organizational productivity; hence numerous studies in organizational research were targeted for the discovery of its causes. Among them, the employees’ personality, job characteristics, interpersonal relationships and leadership style are the often cited ones. However, most of these studies were administered among employees of certain type of organizations; few studies were conducted for the population in general. Based on the findings of former researches, this study expands to include all working populations in Taiwan, with special emphases on occupational categories and job characteristics. Besides, workplace relationships, i.e. both vertical and horizontal relations in working place are considered. The data for this study were collected by the research project “Taiwan Social Change Survey” 2005. This study includes all subjects with at least a paid job. One way ANOVA was used to discern the differences among occupational categories and multiple regression analysis was used to determine the extent of impacts of different personality types, occupational categories, job characteristics, interpersonal relationships on the subjects’ job satisfaction. The results show that job satisfaction of both management professionals and semi-professionals are significantly higher than blue-collar workers, and among the significant factors of job satisfaction, i.e. personality characteristics, occupational categories, job characteristics and interpersonal relationships, job characteristics are the most powerful ones. Key words: occupational categories, job characteristics, interpersonal relationships, personality, job satisfaction