Motivation and Job Performance

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Job satisfaction is defined as a result of an employee’s perception of how well their job provides those things viewed as important. Job satisfaction is generally recognized in the field that job satisfaction is the most important and frequently studied attitude. There are three most important dimensions of job satisfaction which are: • Job satisfaction is an emotional response to situations in the job • Job satisfaction is determined by how well an outcome meets or exceeds expectations. For example is there is an employee in an organization that feels like they are working harder than their coworkers but receives no reward or recognition, they will have a negative attitude toward work and their employees. On the other hand if an employee feels they are being treated well and being rewarded for a job well done they are more likely to have a positive attitude. • Job satisfaction represents several related attitudes which are most important characteristics of a job in which people have effective responses (work motivation, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, 2007). Organizational commitment is the individual’s psychological attachment to an organization. Organizational commitment has a wide variety of definitions. They have been defined in the terms of three dimensions. • Strong desire to remain a member of a particular organization • Willingness to exert high levels of efforts on behalf of the organization • Define belief in and acceptability of the values and goals of the organization Based on the definition of both Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment I believe that Job Satisfaction is more strongly related to my company Wegmans. Wegmans food mart believes in the motto “employees first, customers second”. They do that because they believe that if you start with a happy, well-motivated workforce, you are more likely to have happy

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