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    Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction: Are You Satisfied with Your Job?
    Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction: Are You Satisfied with Your Job?
    Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction: Are You Satisfied with Your Job?
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    Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction: Are You Satisfied with Your Job?

    By Don Wicker

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    Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction explores the reasons that some people experience total job satisfaction and others do not.
    Throughout the book, I will ask several questions of the readers of this book, starting with: Are you satisfied with your job?
    This book will investigate ways to boost job satisfaction and suggest steps to improve the quality of your work life. Even if you are in a job where you cannot see a way out, you can make some changes that will increase your job satisfaction.
    A highlight of this book is the interviews with individuals in various jobs and experiencing various degrees of job satisfaction. The interviews represent workers from all walks of life to provide an understanding of job satisfaction in line positions, management, and senior management positions.
    The book will explore the relationship between college education and job satisfaction. It will consider expert opinions on the connection between healthy relationships at work and job satisfaction. Generational differences related to job satisfaction have also been identified. The book examines whether baby boomers are different from Generation Xers in their job satisfaction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 16, 2011
    ISBN9781463403096
    Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction: Are You Satisfied with Your Job?
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    Don Wicker

    About the Author Dr. Don Wicker is a professor of business and management at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Texas. He holds a doctoral degree in organization and management with a concentration in leadership. He teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and he has published five books. He has held visiting posts at universities throughout Texas since 1999. Other books Dr. Wicker has authored include Goal Setting, Motivation, Attitude is #1, and Job Satisfaction. During his twenty-one year career in business with General Motors Corporation, Dr. Wicker was a senior manager in the areas and departments of: accounting, auditing, finance, vehicle sales, service, and marketing.

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      Job Satisfaction - Don Wicker

      About the Author

      Dr. Don Wicker is a professor of business and management at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Texas. He holds a doctoral degree in organization and management. He teaches at the undergraduate and professional levels, and he has published four books. He has held visiting posts at universities throughout Texas since 1999.

      Other books Dr. Wicker has authored include Goal Setting, Motivation, and Attitude is #1.

      During a twenty-one-year career with General Motors, Dr. Wicker managed projects in accounting, auditing, finance, vehicle sales, service, and marketing.

      Contents

      About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      What Is Job Satisfaction?

      Ways to Boost Your Job Satisfaction

      Interviews and Job Satisfaction

      College Education and Job Satisfaction

      Enrich your Job

      What Do Experts Say about Job Satisfaction?

      Generational Differences and Job Satisfaction

      Children and Satisfying Jobs

      What Do People Think about Good Jobs?

      Gender and Job Satisfaction

      Job Satisfaction and Research

      Job Satisfaction and Culture

      A Wicker Case Study

      Conclusion

      References

      Acknowledgments

      Some very important people in my life made this project possible. These include my beautiful wife, Mary, with her enduring love and encouragement; my daughter, Rachel, one of the most beautiful girls in the world; and my fantastic son, Nehemiah, for his tough analysis of this project. Special thanks to McKenzie, and Wollar, for their kind support. Finally, to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coverson, thanks for giving me a strong foundation in life.

      Introduction

      Job Satisfaction: Fact or Fiction explores the reasons that some people experience total job satisfaction and others do not.

      Throughout the book, I will ask several questions of the readers of this book, starting with: Are you satisfied with your job?

      This book will investigate ways to boost job satisfaction and suggest steps to improve the quality of your work life. Even if you are in a job where you cannot see a way out, you can make some changes that will increase your job satisfaction.

      A highlight of this book is the interviews with individuals in various jobs and experiencing various degrees of job satisfaction. The interviews represent workers from all walks of life to provide an understanding of job satisfaction in line positions, management, and senior management positions.

      The book will explore the relationship between college education and job satisfaction. It will consider expert opinions on the connection between healthy relationships at work and job satisfaction. Generational differences related to job satisfaction have also been identified. The book examines whether baby boomers are different from Generation Xers in their job satisfaction.

      In the past, job satisfaction had very little significance in the lives of many workers. The book includes a detailed explanation of past studies of job satisfaction. A psychologist named Douglas McGregor developed what he called Theory X and Theory Y, for example. Using these theories, he described the way companies viewed the motivation of their employees. Managers subscribing to Theory X believed that employees" disliked work, whereas managers applying Theory Y believed that employees liked work. Does enjoying work equate to job satisfaction?

      This book also studies job satisfaction and culture. Do some cultures view certain jobs as more satisfying then others? Or are all cultures alike in this respect?

      Successful people make deliberate decisions and conscious efforts directed toward a specific goal.

      What Is Job Satisfaction?

      When we mention job satisfaction, what do we mean? One definition of job satisfaction states: A sense of inner fulfillment and pride achieved when performing a particular job. Job satisfaction occurs when an employee feels he has accomplished something having importance and value worth recognition; sense of job. (Webster’s dictionary, 3rd edition 2010). To the worker, job

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