Job Satisfaction Interpreted
Job Satisfaction comprises of two words “Job” and “Satisfaction”. Before we define the phrase, it is important to understand the word “satisfaction”. Satisfaction is defined as the fulfillment or gratification of a desire, need, or appetite. Gratification is a state of being gratified or satisfied. Therefore, one can conclude that “satisfaction” is an internal feeling and no amount of external pleasures or comforts can satisfy you unless you want “to feel” satisfied.
Wikipedia has defined job satisfaction as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job; an affective reaction to one’s job; and an attitude towards one’s job. Weiss (2002) has argued that job satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect (emotion), beliefs and behaviors. This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards our jobs by taking into account our feelings, our beliefs, and our behaviors.
Gone are the days when people used to join one company and retire from the same company after spending their entire life in the company. Relocation for job was not the norm. However the introduction of economic reforms in early 1990’s has changed the way of people’s outlook towards their career and professional life. Thinking small or thinking less becomes unacceptable. People begin to think that thinking little is a crime. The kind of money and comforts that people got exposed to was something unrealistic and unimaginable by the previous generation. All this has contributed to the greed of human being. Companies begin to offer numerous benefits to their employees’ such as pick-and-drop facilities, mobile, high-tech cafeterias, fully subsidized houses, financing for their higher education, stock-options, opportunity to work on-site, in-door games, and in-house entertainment, option to work from home, so on and so forth. Has all these facilities and benefits contributed towards the job-satisfaction of employees? No, it hasn’t. It has only contributed to expand their greed. Doesn’t matter what you offer to them and how you keep them, the moment they get any better offer, they will leave the company. So, how and when does an employee begin to feel satisfied in his job?
I define job satisfaction as a perfect state of mind that can be attained only then when either a person gets tired of changing jobs at regular intervals or companies get fed-up of hiring a recurrent job-hopper. One may move from one company to another and may change 7-8 companies in a span of, say, 5-6 years (I know people who have achieved this goal in lesser number of years). In every company, they found similar kind of comforts, benefits and perks and now that they have become tired of changing jobs and hence they thought of “begin to love their current job and feel satisfied in the current environment”. Other reason for being satisfied in their current job is that they have hopped so many jobs and companies in last few years that the companies have begin to ignore their profiles. If there is no job in offering, you will love what you have.
I believe that all these job satisfaction talks and surveys are wastage of time and resources. Just like the way, no one can motivate you or make you feel passionate, if you do not want to; in a same way, no one and nothing can make you love your job or feel satisfied in your job, if you don’t want to.
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Composed By: Sanjeev Himachali
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