2.3 Consequences of Job satisfaction/dissatisfaction
Job satisfaction is, before everything else, a concept, and as such it has to be understood. Job satisfaction is something we use to understand how things are, and to improve our lives, based on that understanding. In other words, there is no need for realism or assumptions of what things really are. It is enough to understand it as a tool.
Given its complex nature, Job satisfaction is still being studied and no final word over its consequences and causes has been told. Nevertheless, a lot of research has been performed and there are multiple papers, books and researches that have dedicated a lot of resources to help understand its nature and features. In this section, we will focus on most common consequences of Job satisfaction.
As an attitude, like social psychologists and …show more content…
At first glance, over or under education seem to produce a skill mismatch for any worker in those conditions, but the results show that are separated variables. This paper (Allen and van der Velden, 2001), stated the importance of making a distinction between schooling and skill and their effects over Job satisfaction.
Their findings in this particular point are that: Undereducation has no significant effect on Job satisfaction; Overeducation has a negative effect, although it is not significative; skill deficit has also a negative effect, but not a significative one; on the other hand,skill mismatch has a strong negative effect on Job satisfaction. Summarizing, it is more important to have workers with theright skills, than with the exact academic level to have a higher Job satisfacion in a particular job or business. (Allen and van der Velden, 2001)
Coherent with those findings, the work of Lok and Crawford (2004), found that their participants’ level of education was found to have a slight negative effect on satisfaction, and a slight positive effect on
Job satisfaction is, before everything else, a concept, and as such it has to be understood. Job satisfaction is something we use to understand how things are, and to improve our lives, based on that understanding. In other words, there is no need for realism or assumptions of what things really are. It is enough to understand it as a tool.
Given its complex nature, Job satisfaction is still being studied and no final word over its consequences and causes has been told. Nevertheless, a lot of research has been performed and there are multiple papers, books and researches that have dedicated a lot of resources to help understand its nature and features. In this section, we will focus on most common consequences of Job satisfaction.
As an attitude, like social psychologists and …show more content…
At first glance, over or under education seem to produce a skill mismatch for any worker in those conditions, but the results show that are separated variables. This paper (Allen and van der Velden, 2001), stated the importance of making a distinction between schooling and skill and their effects over Job satisfaction.
Their findings in this particular point are that: Undereducation has no significant effect on Job satisfaction; Overeducation has a negative effect, although it is not significative; skill deficit has also a negative effect, but not a significative one; on the other hand,skill mismatch has a strong negative effect on Job satisfaction. Summarizing, it is more important to have workers with theright skills, than with the exact academic level to have a higher Job satisfacion in a particular job or business. (Allen and van der Velden, 2001)
Coherent with those findings, the work of Lok and Crawford (2004), found that their participants’ level of education was found to have a slight negative effect on satisfaction, and a slight positive effect on