... | The preparation of this report has been authorized by Mrs. Nasira Siddika, Course instructor of Organizational Behavior (MGT321) of Section-10 in Summer’11 semester of the School of Business, North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka. A group of four students of this course have been asked to prepare a report on impact of Hygiene- Motivation factors on employees’ behavior: A comparative study of satisfaction dissatisfaction on Pawla Knitwear (Pvt.) Ltd. The report has been prepared by our group called “Brainstormers” & the submission date of this report is August 9, 2011. This report has been prepared on the basis of the standard procedures of Long & Formal Report Writing based on the book Business Communication (Lesikar, Flatley & Rentz, 2008, chap.12) eleventh edition. |1.2 Problem and Purpose | The purpose of this report is to analyze the “Impact of Hygiene- Motivation factors on employees’ behavior” on the basis of the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of employees of Pawla Knitwear (Pvt.) Ltd. For this research we selected 30 employees from Narayanganj Office and factory of Pawla...
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...a process of choosing a course of action to deal with a problem or opportunity (Schermerhorn, Hunt, Osborn, and Uhl-Bien; 2010). Decision making is not something that people need to take lightly; these decisions will affect a person for the rest of his or her life. The decision making process in the text is an ideal model that allows people to be guided through the decision making process. “The process begins with identifying and diagnosing the problem, in this stage is identifying a problem exists and must be solved” (Bateman, 2011). Super’s career development theory has indicated that what is learned is a function of the interest, values, attitudes and behavior patterns that are valued and rewarded by the individuals, peers and adult models (Sharma, 2009). According to the theorist, persons choose vocations according to their interests and abilities, skills, training, and personality characteristics. Occupations and life satisfaction, therefore, depend upon the possibility to which the individual finds sufficient outlets for their interest. Career preferences are a tough decision of what do you want to become after you graduate in your chosen field. It is always been subjective by many factors that surround our life. But to think of it, as you chose this job consider those capabilities and skills you possessed because this will be a great satisfaction to your job and most is family involvement will follow because later they will just realize that you become successful...
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...many reasons(finacial gail, job satisfaction).What do you think is the best way to choose a career. Use specific reasons and example to support your answer. I know some people who give more thought to what they wear to work each day than they gave to choosing their careers. Personal, I think that career planning is multi-step process that involves learning about yourself, discovering which occupations are suitable for someone with that personality tipe, values, interests and skills. It is very important to have a satisfing job. Job satisfaction has been defined as an affective reaction to one job. So that the happiest people are with their job, the more satisfied they are said to be. For an organization is important that people be efficient. For that they must be motivated. Job satisfaction is not the same as motivation, although it is clearly linked. Job design aims to enhance job satisfaction and performance, methods include job rotation, etc. Other influences on satisfaction job include the management style and culture, employee involvement , empowerment and work in groups. Job satisfaction is a very important attribute which is frequently measured by organisations. The most common way of measurement is use of rating scales where emloyees report the reactions to their job. Questions relate ray of pay, work responsabilities, variety of tasks and promotional opportunities. Some questions ask yes/no questions while others ask to rate satisfaction on 1-5 scale. I frequently...
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...Nowadays there is a great variety of jobs to any taste. Choosing a future career, we should consider the following things. • Pay. Is the size of your salary important? Generally speaking, it is important. Of course there may be various situations, but if you are going to be independent, successful and wealthy, you have to find a well-paid job. Moreover, if you are going to have a family, you should be ready to support it, to be a breadwinner. Naturally, you'd like to live in good conditions, and your children to study at good schools, and then to enter prestigious universities, to travel all around the world and so on. Now you understand why you should take money into consideration when choosing a job. • Further training, promotion prospects and job conditions should also be kept in mind. Just after graduating it is very difficult to find a plum job which will respond to all your preferences. It is usually a monotonous, tedious clerical job, but if you are a capable and hard-working person, you will certainly be offered an opportunity to climb the ladder. • Place of work. You ought to decide whether you want to work indoors (cashier, chemist, librarian, secretary, etc.) or outdoors (driver, firefighter, estate agent, etc.). Your choice may be based on your lifestyle or health condition. • Full-time, part-time, flexitime jobs. There is no set pattern to part-time working. It may involve a later start and earlier finish time than a full-time position, working mornings or...
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...sacrifice you made? What kind of sacrifice was it? What values did you use figure it out? Why did you make that sacrifice? I'm sure us humans have made many sacrifices in our life time. Just because we've made them it doesn't mean that they're good. There's lots of thinking that gets put into making sacrifices, both large and small. When doing so you have to determine the kind of sacrifice, the value of the sacrifice, and when to make a sacrifice. One would ask themselves, how many types of sacrifices could there possibly be? A sacrifice is a sacrifice right? No. There are four kinds of sacrifices; time,money,comfort, and energy. The first kind of sacrifice, time, is for example, like...
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...Planning Your Future Choosing the right major is complicated and so complex. There are some majors that sound interesting and some are boring. However, choosing the right major is important. It doesn't only give you good paid job, but it serves as your key to a better future goal. Moreover, deciding what major you want to take takes time, you have to do some research about the course description; and where and what colleges or universities you can go to that focus best regarding the majors. What was amusing about Mapping Your Future’s website was valuable information like the following: Assessing your skills and interested Consider your skills Develop a career plan (Explore Career para 3) This site even included sample career plan to finding work websites. I can see how this site will be beneficial for me. It provides step-by-step instruction on how I can obtain information to prepare me for my career choice. It also indicates the directions, tools and education needed to proceed with career choice. In addition to the employment website I already have, this website supplied me with additional information concerning other jobs site I can start working with in order to find employment in the chosen field of Human Resources. I will definitely look forward in obtaining and utilizing these resources now and as my career goals changes in the future. The future is looking brighter for me, I now know...
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... Significance of the study Choosing one over another is difficult especially when your future depends upon it. To be more ascertain people get to use their preference in such a way that they would not be put at risk. Preference is the act of preferring, choosing, or favoring one above other. One example of this is choosing what career path to be taken in College. But it is not simply choosing, there are some factors associated why people choose one above other. A student might choose Engineering because he is good at Mathematics or Accountancy because it is an in-demand course. This proves that choosing a career path is an important decision that will make in determining future plans because this decision will impact throughout ones lives. Usually, this occurs in the midst of fourth year in high school of the students. For them to be able to go onto higher level, they are sought to choose a career path among many options. But because of these many options they tend to be more confused and they tend used their preference. Notre Dame of Kabacan is just one of the school institutions in Kabacan, North Cotabato that caters secondary level of education. This school has fourth year high school students that might experience the same situation. In this study, the researcher will: determine what is the career preferred by students; identify the factors affecting their preference; determine the advantages and disadvantages in choosing a career; and identify the problems...
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...Chapter I 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Background of study 1.4 Statement of the problem 1.5 Research hypothesis 1.6 Definition of terms 1.1 Introduction Previous researchers have examined management within the hospitality industry for many reasons, including: examining job satisfaction of general managers (Frye & Mount, 2007), determining factors on a resume that may lead to being contacted for an interview (Countryman & Horton, 2006), and determining the causes of management turnover and what could be done to increase retention (Stalcup & Pearson, 2001; Walsh & Taylor, 2007). In addition, research has been done examining graduates from specific institutions (Walsh & Taylor, 2007) as well as perceptions of current students and what they expect when they graduate (Richardson, 2009). Blomme, Van Rheede, and Tromp (2009) found differences between pre- and post-entry expectations of hospitality management graduates in the hospitality industry. However, no past research has examined differences in hospitality graduates with respect to experiences, importance, and turnover in the hospitality industry. Researchers have found many hospitality graduates either never entered the industry, or left the industry with no intent to return (Blomme et al., 2009; King, McKercher, & Waryszak, 2003; Stalcup & Pearson, 2001; Walsh & Taylor, 2007). In addition, Blomme et al. found significant differences in pre- and post-entry expectations of hospitality graduates...
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....5 * Choosing Economics as a Career.......................11 4. Conclusion..........................................................18 5. Bibliography.......................................................20 6. Appendix ..........................................................22 Abstract This paper explores how should an individual choose the career for his or her life as well as choosing career in economics. Online (web-pages, online journals, NBEA yearbooks) and offline (books, magazines, dictionaries, research) materials are used in the research that are shown in bibliography. Apart from these, there can be seen the Myers-Briggs Personality Test that helps people to take first idea when choosing future career. This article clearly explains the definitions of career, job, and occupation. At the end in appendix part, example resume and tables are shown that mentioned in body part. It contains below listed keywords: career, job, occupation, personality test, resume, interview, search strategies, search engines, salary, economics, theoretical economist, business economist, government economist, academic, personal qualities, work conditions, education Introduction Many people ask "How do I pick the right career?" In the following paragraphs, there will be the briefly answer with including authors` citation and real examples by Judy Kaplan Baron from globalized world. Understanding and knowing own personality and interests can be a primary step choosing a career...
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...Job satisfaction is a complex concept, which can mean different things to different people, and is difficult to measure objectively. Set out clearly your own explanation of job satisfaction, what you see as the main dimensions of job satisfaction and how you believe it can best be measured. Chapter 1 1. Introduction 1. What is job satisfaction Job satisfaction is how people react towards their job. If their current job meets their expectations and needs, it will satisfy them. If not, their work quality will be decrease. Job satisfaction is a very important issue that every organization frequently measured to make sure all of them employees satisfied with their job to maintain or increase their work quality. Job satisfaction is related with motivation. If employees have high satisfaction towards the job, they will be motivated to continue working. 2. Factors influence There are many factors that can influence employees’ satisfaction towards their job. In Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory, all the factors are classified in two categories, the motivators factors and the hygiene factors. 1. The hygiene factors Include pay, status, job security, working conditions, fringe benefits, policies and procedures, and interpersonal relations. Pay is what the organization pay to the employees for their job. The employees will be satisfied with their job if the pay is suitable with the job. Status is the rank where the employees are in. Employees...
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...Unit 1 - Fundamentals of Statistics Jeanna Starr American InterContinental University Abstract A data analysis was done on job satisfaction for the company AIU categorized by age, gender, tenure, position, and department. Overall job satisfaction as well as intrinsic (satisfaction with the actual performance of the job) and extrinsic (office location or work colleagues) job satisfaction were considered in this survey. Introduction AIU assembled a team of researchers to study job satisfaction. I was selected as part of a group to participate in a massive global undertaking. The study required me to examine data and analyze the results. The study consists of job satisfaction, which is extremely important to an organization’s overall success. This particular study will allow managers to gain understanding and knowledge about what type of human behaviors can be used to strengthen an organization’s performance. Chosen Variables I have chosen gender for my qualitative data and intrinsic for my quantitative data. The reason that I have chosen these two variables is because I thought it would be interesting to analyze if males or females were more satisfied with their job, and how the actual job performance reflected their job satisfaction rating. Difference in variable types Qualitative variables include subjects that are non-numerical, such as gender. Quantitative variables include subjects that are numerical and give us a clear visual as to what...
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...Statistics ReneeCarina Benavente American InterContinental University BUSN311-12005B-11 Abstract In many organizations surveys are done to determine the job satisfaction of their employees. Job satisfaction is important for theses organizations large or small because it makes the aspects of the job easy for employees. Analyzing the data within these surveys is to find the overall job satisfaction using qualitative and quantitative variables. Introduction A word wide study of job satisfaction has been assembled by a large organization called American Intellectual Union (AIU). I have been chosen to be a part of this massive global undertaking. I will be analyzing the data from this study and results survey using AIU’s data set. Chosen Variables In examining the data set and results of AIU’s employees I chose to analyze the positions of the employees as my qualitative variables and the intrinsic job satisfaction as my quantitative variables. I chose to analyze these two specific variables because as an hourly or salary paid employee their internal job satisfaction is very important to know. It is best to understand the job satisfaction of employee position within the organization to better the work environment. Qualitative and Quantitative Variables Using qualitative and quantitative variables you have to know and understand the difference between the two variable or the results would not add up. Quantitative data is data that can be added up to come up...
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...Sports * Business * Entertainment * Lifestyle * Jobs * Cars * Real Estate Small Businessby Demand Media * Accounting & Bookkeeping| * Advertising & Marketing| * Business Communications & Etiquette| * Business Models & Organizational Structure| * Business Planning & Strategy| * Business Technology & Customer Support| * Business & Workplace Regulations| * Finances & Taxes * |More » 1. Small Business > 2. Managing Employees > 3. Jobs Dimensions of Job Satisfaction by Catherine Lovering, Demand Media Employees do not derive job satisfaction from high pay alone. In the 1950s, motivation theorist Frederick Herzberg divided the elements required for job satisfaction into two dimensions: hygiene and motivators. In short, the environment has to be positive and the job has to be a good fit. In the decades since Herzberg's study, employee surveys have confirmed employees' ownership of their jobs and tangible company benefits are as important to satisfaction as a big paycheck. Ads by Google Training Materials Soft skills training materials to teach soft skills training courses. corporatetrainingmaterials.com Hygiene Hygiene refers to working environment. While this dimension does not in and of itself create job satisfaction, it's a prerequisite to satisfaction occurring. Work environment involves all of the administrative aspects of an organization...
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...Factors that affects career Preferences among Grade 10 High school Student of Mt Moriah Christian Academy By: Angeles Jarvin Joseph L March 2014 ii ii Approval Sheet This thesis entitled “Factors that affects career Preferences among Grade 10 High school Student of Mt Moriah Christian Academy”, prepared and submitted by Jarvin Joseph L Angeles , in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements of Fourth Year students has been examined and is Recommended for the Committee examination ____________________ Mrs. Daisy D. Rogelio English and Filipino Coordinator Oral Examination Committee _________________ ____________________ Dr.Rosario N. Andaya Ms. Aleli G. Ocampo School Principal Math and Science Coordinator Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the Fourth year of Mt.Moriah Christian Academy. _______________________________ Dr. Rosario N. Andaya School Principal iii iii ABSTRACT Title: Factors That Affects Career Preferences among Grade 10 High school Student of Mt Moriah Christian Academy Researcher: Angeles, Jarvin Joseph L. Thesis Adviser: Mrs. Daisy Rogelio Panel: Mrs. Rosario Andaya School: Mt. Moriah Christian Academy Date Completed: March 2014 Aim: To know what Factors Affects Career Preferences among Grade 10...
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...Undergraduates' Perceptions of Tourism and Hospitality as a Career Choice Scott A. Richardson Griffith University Gold Coast, Australia E-mail: scott.richardson@griffith.edu.au ABSTRACT This study explored undergraduate tourism and hospitality student’s views of the industry as a career choice. Three hundred and seventy-nine tourism and hospitality students, from eight Australian institutions, completed a questionnaire rating the importance of twenty factors in influencing their choice of career, and then the extent to which they thought tourism and hospitality, as a career, offers these factors. A number of factors have been identified as being significantly different. From the results it is clear that students generally do not believe that a career in tourism and hospitality will offer them the factors that they find important. Key Words: Career choice, Undergraduates, Perceptions, Tourism, Hospitality INTRODUCTION The tourism and hospitality industry worldwide, and in Australia in particular, has been confronted with the problem of attracting and retaining quality employees which has lead to a shortage of skilled personnel to staff the ever-growing number of tourism and hospitality businesses (Andorka, 1996; Bonn & Forbringer, 1992; Breiter, 1991; Deery & Shaw, 1999; Dermady & Holloway, 1998; Emenheiser, Clay, & Palakurthi, 1998; Ferris, Berkson, & Harris, 2002; Freeland, 2000; Heraty & Morley, 1998; Hinkin & Tracey, 2000; McDermid, 1996; Powell, 1999; Tourism Division, 2002)...
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