Given the recent findings which indicate that job satisfaction is largely genetically determined, why should managers care about employee job satisfaction? Please, discuss. The role of employee job satisfaction in the overall performance of the firm is factually very important. Indeed, in the case of job dissatisfaction, employees tend to be more focused on the negative aspects of their work rather than on achieving their objectives, so they are less involved and less concentrated which affects directly the quality of the resulting work. Therefore, this could have serious negative consequences on the company itself notably the reduction of its performance and profitability due to a lower productivity, the risk of missing interesting opportunities due to the lower concentration and lower creativity from employees, or even worse, the risk of facing losses that the company could have avoided and that could have been caused by heavy mistakes due to negligence. So ensuring employee job satisfaction is essential to avoid unnecessary damages but also to optimize the overall performance of the organization. In fact, job satisfaction of employees enables to encourage their motivation and thus to increase their efficiency and productivity, and even sometimes to boost their creativity, resulting in enhanced performance and higher profits for the company. As a result, it is essential that managers care about job satisfaction, particularly concerning employees in charge of critical missions for the organization. However, several studies state that job satisfaction is largely genetically determined which implies that a person is natively inclined to be satisfied with specific kinds of jobs and dissatisfied with others. So knowing that element, the question is: to what extent are managers actually responsible of employee job satisfaction?

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