smile! you're at work! job satisfaction in the workplace
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Find out if you are Happy in your Current Career by using one of the Many Job Satisfaction Methods.TRANSCRIPT
Smile…You’re At Work!Job Satisfaction with the Job Characteristics Model
What is the JCM?
Meaningfulness of the Work
Task Significance
Task Identity
Skill Variety
Autonomy Feedback
High Motivation, High-quality Performance, High job Satisfaction, Low Absenteeism, and Low Turnover
Skill Variety - The range of tasks performedTask Identity - The ability to complete the whole job from start to finishTask Significance - The impact of the job on others
The extent of discretion and freedom an employee has over
his or her tasks
The extent to which the job provides the employee with
information about the effectiveness of his or her performance
Meaning… • You are Happier in your job when…..
• You have multiple types of tasks that need your attention
• You are the Main/Only person on the Task (Seeing it for start to finish)
• The Completed Task makes a difference in the workplace
• You are not Micro-Manage in the workplace
• You know the Results of your job performance on the Completed Task
A Way to Measure your Happiness!
• Motivational Potential Score (MPS)• An index of how likely a job is to affect an employee's attitudes and behaviors.
MPS Skill Variety Task Identity Task Significance Autonomy Feedback
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Jobs that are high in motivating potential must be also high on at least one of the three factors that lead to experienced meaningfulness, and also must be high on both Autonomy and Feedback.
Some of the Most Satisfying Jobs!Firefighters
Authors
Physical Therapists
Ask Yourself…• Do I work on the same projects all the time?
• Is my work becoming mundane?
• Do I get to see the affect my project has on the workplace?
• Does my project/performance make a difference?
• Do I have freedom in the workplace?
• Do I get real feedback from management that can help me become better?
The Answer…
High Job Satisfaction
Low Job Satisfaction
NO
YES
How to Change your JS!
• Ask for more Responsibility in the Workplace
• Ask for more Variety in Tasks
• Prove that you do not need to be Micro-Managed
• Ask for Good and Bad feedback from managers
• Change Jobs
Contact…
@Astra_Careers
Facebook/AstraSolutions
LinkedIn/KellyLoudermilk
Credits…
• http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100021207
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_satisfaction#Motivating_Potential_Score
• http://www.livescience.com/1431-survey-reveals-satisfying-jobs.html