Job Satisfaction comprises of two words "Job" and "Satisfaction". Before we
define the phrase, it is important to understand the word "satisfaction".
Satisfaction is defined as the fulfillment or gratification of a desire, need,
or appetite.Gratification is a state of being gratified or satisfied.
Therefore, one can conclude that "satisfaction" is an internal feeling and no
amount of external pleasures or comforts can satisfy you unless you want "to
feel" satisfied.
Wikipedia has defined job satisfaction as a pleasurable emotional state
resulting from the appraisal of one's job; an affective reaction to one's
job;and an attitude towards one's job.Weiss (2002) has argued that job
satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly
distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect (emotion),
beliefs and behaviors. This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards
our jobs by taking into account our feelings, our beliefs, and our behaviors.
Gone are the days when people used to join one company and retire from the
same company after spending their entire life in the company. Relocation for
job was not the norm. However the introduction of economic reforms in early
1990's has changed the way of people's outlook towards their career and
professional life. Thinking small or thinking less becomes unacceptable. People
begin to think that thinking little is a crime. The kind of money and comforts
that people got exposed to was something unrealistic and unimaginable by the
previous generation. All this has contributed to the greed of human being.
Companies begin to offer numerous benefits to their employees' such as
pick-and-drop facilities, mobile, high-tech cafeterias, fully subsidized
houses, financing for their higher education, stock-options, opportunity to
work on-site, in-door games, and in-house entertainment, option to work from
home, so on and so forth. Has all these facilities and benefits contributed
towards the job-satisfaction of employees? No, it hasn't. It has only
contributed to expand their greed. Doesn't matter what you offer to them and
how you keep them, the moment they get any better offer, they will leave the
company. So, how and when does an employee begin to feel satisfied in his job?
I define job satisfaction as a perfect state of mind that can be attained only
then when either a person gets tired of changing jobs at regular intervals or
companies get fed-up of hiring a recurrent job-hopper. One may move from one
company to another and may change 7-8 companies in a span of, say, 5-6 years (I
know people who have achieved this goal in lesser number of years). In every
company, they found similar kind of comforts, benefits and perks and now that
they have become tired of changing jobs and hence they thought of "begin to
love their current job and feel satisfied in the current environment". Other
reason for being satisfied in their current job is that they have hopped so
many jobs and companies in last few years that the companies have begin to
ignore their profiles. If there is no job in offering, you will love what you
have.
I believe that all these job satisfaction talks and surveys are wastage of
time and resources. Just like the way, no one can motivate you or make you feel
passionate, if you do not want to; in a same way, no one and nothing can make
you love your job or feel satisfied in your job, if you don't want to.
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