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Workers' Roles in Job Satisfaction

Workers can increase their job satisfaction by seeking opportunities to develop skills, communicating effectively, continuously learning new job-related knowledge, demonstrating creativity and initiative, working well with others, accepting diversity, and finding meaning in their work. Management also plays a role by creating a stimulating, challenging, supportive and rewarding work environment, tying pay to responsibilities and performance, and ensuring job pleasures outweigh pains. When these factors are in place, workers will experience higher levels of long-term job satisfaction.

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Workers' Roles in Job Satisfaction

Workers can increase their job satisfaction by seeking opportunities to develop skills, communicating effectively, continuously learning new job-related knowledge, demonstrating creativity and initiative, working well with others, accepting diversity, and finding meaning in their work. Management also plays a role by creating a stimulating, challenging, supportive and rewarding work environment, tying pay to responsibilities and performance, and ensuring job pleasures outweigh pains. When these factors are in place, workers will experience higher levels of long-term job satisfaction.

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Workers' Roles in Job Satisfaction

If job satisfaction is a worker benefit, surely the worker must be able to contribute to his or
her own satisfaction and well-being on the job. The following suggestions can help a worker
find personal job satisfaction:

 Seek opportunities to demonstrate skills and talents. This often leads to more
challenging work and greater responsibilities, with attendant increases in pay and
other recognition.
 Develop excellent communication skills. Employers value and reward excellent
reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills.
 Know more. Acquire new job-related knowledge that helps you to perform tasks more
efficiently and effectively. This will relieve boredom and often gets one noticed.
 Demonstrate creativity and initiative. Qualities like these are valued by most
organizations and often result in recognition as well as in increased responsibilities
and rewards.
 Develop teamwork and people skills. A large part of job success is the ability to work
well with others to get the job done.
 Accept the diversity in people. Accept people with their differences and their
imperfections and learn how to give and receive criticism constructively.
 See the value in your work. Appreciating the significance of what one does can lead to
satisfaction with the work itself. This helps to give meaning to one's existence, thus
playing a vital role in job satisfaction.
 Learn to de-stress. Plan to avoid burnout by developing healthy stress-management
techniques.

Assuring Job Satisfaction

Assuring job satisfaction, over the longterm, requires careful planning and effort both by
management and by workers. Managers are encouraged to consider such theories as
Herzberg's(1957) and Maslow's (1943) Creating a good blend of factors that contribute to a
stimulating, challenging, supportive, and rewarding work environment is vital. Because of the
relative prominence of pay in the reward system, it is very important that salaries be tied to
job responsibilities and that pay increases be tied to performance rather than seniority.

So, in essence, job satisfaction is a product of the events and conditions that people
experience on their jobs. Brief (1998) wrote: "If a person's work is interesting, her pay is fair,
her promotional opportunities are good, her supervisor is supportive, and her coworkers are
friendly, then a situational approach leads one to predict she is satisfied with her job" (p. 91).
Very simply put, if the pleasures associated with one's job outweigh the pains, there is some
level of job satisfaction

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