ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITYMBA-DAY PROGRAM Organizational BehaviorPersonal Reflection About Job SatisfactionSubmitted by ; Mr. Lynn Pyi(Austria) Submitted to ; Dr. Ioan Voicu | Student ID ; 5819019 | |
Date; 21, September, 2015 |
Personal Reflection of Job Satisfaction
Job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive feeling about a job and it is one of most important job attitudes. Some believe it is simply how content an individual is with his or her job, in other words, whether or not they like the job or individual aspects of facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. Others believe it is not so simplistic as this definition suggests and instead that multidimensional psychological responses to one's job are involved. Job satisfaction of employees improves the organization or company’s advantages. A person with a high level of job satisfaction holds positive feelings about his or her job, whereas a person with a low level holds negative feelings. Job satisfaction scales vary in the extent to which they assess the affective feelings about the job or the cognitive assessment of the job. Affective job satisfaction is a subjective construct representing an emotional feeling individuals have about their job. Job satisfaction can also be seen within the broader context of the range of issues which affect an individual's experience of work, or their quality of working life. Job satisfaction can be understood in terms of its relationships with other key factors, such as general well-being, stress at work, control at work, home-work interface, and working conditions.
When I started thinking about job satisfaction, it is also really important for me. As for a student who had no job experience, I would like to satisfy in my future job. Not only in a job, we need to satisfy in other fields like education, entertainment, health also needs to be satisfied. Without satisfaction, employees get bore, less respect and even they are going to quit the job. So I strongly agree to the subject of job satisfaction.
When we say about job satisfaction, it depends on many things like high salary, promotions, good supervision, coworkers, freedom at job, altruism, and status and comfort safety environment. If someone is going to ask me a question that “Which of these things are most important to you?”, I am going to choose everything. But there is no job with perfection. When we get one thing, we will lose another one. And we cannot do a choice because these things already come from the organization or the job not our decision. But when we faced these things it will be our overall job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is also the collection of feelings, beliefs and thoughts about how to behave with respect to our current job.
Now I would like to share about my last experience from my bachelor degree university. I studied bachelor degree at my home town country, Myanmar. When I tell about satisfaction on my school, I got 85% of satisfaction. As a first thing, my choice was hundred percents right of choosing the school because it is one of the schools that can provide the best education in my country. They taught not only lectures and lessons but also gave experience about the lessons. We had great times at learning and they could do good recommendations to others. Another one is the lecturers who are really qualified and they could supervise very well for me. My friends or my colleagues are good to communicate with them. But not all friends are good enough to work with them in group works and discussions. When I do group discussions with good friends, I could finish the works very well and got satisfaction. So I was happy to do more home works and assignments. When some friends are not good to communicate each other, I didn’t want to do assignments anymore but this is not the main thing to dissatisfy.
The second thing about my satisfaction at school was “promotion”. When I use this word, some may think what is promotion for a student? Yes, I got promotions as a student that I was raise as team leader, secretary, representative and even as an assistant teacher because the students’ council always looked for skillful, talented, qualified, clever and smart students every year. Most of students want this chance at school and it is really rare to give normal students but I was one of the chosen students. When they promote me like this, I felt really satisfied as a student of that university.
There also are dissatisfactions about my university. They couldn’t provide full time lecturers that we couldn’t meet whenever we want to ask for lectures and assignments. According to our country internet situation, we couldn’t use for mailing to teachers or searching references for lectures. It is one of the worst situations we had faced and it made me really dissatisfy. Another one for dissatisfaction is less of class room because the school has narrow campus. Sometimes we had to compete or fight for the room and it was really funny but it made dissatisfaction to students. That I would like to label this situation as unsaved environment. But when I think overall about my university, it was satisfied for me.
When we had faced dissatisfactions, we need to express our emotions and feelings or we will lose something that is good for us. For example, a job gives high salary to me but the colleagues are bad for me. If I don’t express that feeling and quit that job, I am going to lose the high payment. And another organization that I’m going to apply after I quit, may not be give a high salary. This will be my loss. So we have to express our feelings that we satisfy or dissatisfy.
When I write about express of our feelings, I would like to show another example from a good animation movie that is just showing at cinemas at this moment. The title of the movie is “Inside Out”. I would like to mention the details and review of the movie.
MOVIE DETAILS Theatrical release date: | June 19, 2015 | Cast: | Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind | Director: | Pete Docter | Studio: | Pixar Animation Studios | Genre: | Family and Kids | Topics: | Adventures, Friendship, Great girl role models |
Movie Review Inside Out is an outstandingly original, heartfelt story from about growing up and learning to handle your biggest emotions. Told primarily from the perspective of the feelings inside 11-year-old Riley, one of the main characters’ mind, the plot has many moments of peril/tension. (Spoiler alert: One key character also permanently fades from existence; that and scenes in which it seems Riley is "borrowing" her mom's credit card and running away are definitely upsetting.) Some of Riley's fears are also on display, including a giant, scary clown. Parents are likely to get hit hardest by the film's heart-tugging moments, but anyone with empathy will feel for Riley as she experiences life's ups and downs. Ultimately, Inside Out has important messages about needing to feel -- and express -- all of your emotions, whether happy or sad. Although most of the content is appropriate for elementary schoolers and up, younger kids may need a bit more explanation about what's going on, since there are references to abstract thought and the subconscious, and it can be a little confusing when other characters' emotions are shown. As a conclusion, happiness is all the more meaningful when you've also experienced defeat, loss, or loneliness.

As a conclusion, when we are working, most people said we should not express about how much we satisfy or not. Most companies or organization only concentrate about how much profit or money they will get but they don’t care about the employees’ feelings and voices. Actually the whole company or an organization’s operation is based on employees. So job satisfaction is one of the most important facts to maintain or operate the organization very well.

References;
Job satisfaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia file:///C:/Users/TGO/Documents/Job%20satisfaction%20-%20Wikipedia,%20the%20free%20encyclopedia.htm Organizational Behavior (Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace), Colquitt, LePine, Wesson. McGraw-Hill international edition.
Organizational Behavior, Jennifer M.George, Gareth R. Jones, Third edition (international), Pearson Education.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/inside-out#