Chapter 10 EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION AND COMMITMENT Flashcards

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Job satisfaction refers to employees’ overall feelings about their jobs. It is the state of well-being and happiness of a person concerning performance in the workspace and its environment

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Job satisfaction

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Organizational commitment helps organizations perform better and achieve their goals because their employees feel connected to the organization, are more productive and dedicated to their work

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Organizational Commitment

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Affective commitment is the extent to which an
employee wants to remain with the organization, cares about the organization, and is
willing to exert effort on its behalf. For example, an employee of the Red Cross might
like her coworkers and her boss, share the altruistic goals of the organization, and
realize that her efforts will result in better organizational performance

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Affective Commitment

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Continuance commitment is the extent to which an employee believes she
must remain with the organization due to the time, expense, and effort that she
has already put into it or the difficulty she would have in finding another job.
Take, for example, a chamber of commerce director who spent 10 years making
business contacts, getting funding for a new building, and earning the trust of the
local city council. Though she could take a new job with a chamber in a different
city, she would need to spend another 10 years with that chamber just to make the
gains she has already made

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Continuance Commitment

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Normative commitment is the extent to which an employee feels obligated to
the organization and, as a result of this obligation, must remain with the organization. A good example of normative commitment would be an employee who was
given her first job by an organization, was mentored by her manager, and was
trained at great cost to the organization. The employee may feel that she is ethically obligated to remain with the organization because of its extensive investment
in her.

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Normative Commitment

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The extent to which people
believe that they are responsible
for and in control of their success
or failure in life

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Internal locus of control

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postulates
that employees observe the levels of motivation and satisfaction of other employees
and then model those levels (Salancik & Pfeffer, 1977). Thus, if an organization’s
older employees work hard and talk positively about their jobs and their employer,
new employees will model this behavior and be both productive and satisfied

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Social information processing theory, also called social learning theory

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based on the premise that our levels of job satisfaction and motivation are related to how fairly we believe we are treated in comparison
with others. If we believe we are treated unfairly, we attempt to change our beliefs or
behaviors until the situation appears to be fair.

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Equity theory

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three aspects of organizational justice

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Distribute Justice, Procedural Justice, Interactional Justice

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is the perceived fairness of the actual decisions made in an organization. For example, did one manager get a higher budget than another? Was the higher raise
received by one employee justified? Did the right employee get promoted?

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Distributed Justice

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s the perceived fairness of the methods used to arrive at the decision.
Take, for example, a situation in which an employee was fired for breaking the
rules, but was never given the opportunity to explain what happened. Or, imagine
a situation in which an excellent employee was given a promotion, but no other
employees were allowed to compete for the promotion

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Procedural Justice

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Is the perceived fairness of the interpersonal treatment
employees receive. That is, a supervisor might spend substantial time talking with,
mentoring, and socializing with some employees while completely ignoring others.

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Interactional Justice

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the employee is given the same number
of tasks to do at one time, but the tasks change from time to time

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Job Rotation

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an employee is given more tasks to do at one time

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Job enlargement

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the
employee assumes more responsibility over the tasks

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Job enrichment

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With quality circles,
employees meet as a group to discuss and make recommendations about work issues

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self-directed teams, or quality circles

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The scales yield scores on five dimensions of job satisfaction:
supervision, pay, promotional opportunities, coworkers, and the work itself

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Job Descriptive Index (JDI

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measure of job satisfaction that
yields scores on 20 dimensions

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Minnesota Satisfaction
Questionnaire (MSQ)

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A measure of the overall level of
job satisfaction

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Job in General (JIG) Scale

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A method of
absenteeism control in which
employees are paid for their
unused sick leave

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Well pay

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to employees who attain a certain
level of attendance. With this method, an employee with perfect attendance over a
year might receive a $1,000 bonus, and an employee who misses 10 days might receive
nothing

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financial bonus

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An absenteeism control
method in which games such as
poker and bingo are used to
reward employee attendance

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Games

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An attendance policy in
which all paid vacations, sick
days, holidays, and so forth
are combined

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Paid time off program
(PTO)

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The extent to which an
employee’s personality, values,
attitudes, philosophy, and skills
match those of the organization

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Person/organization fit

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is described as
the extent to which employees have links to their jobs and community, the importance of
these links, and the ease with which these links could be broken and reestablished elsewhere. That is, if an employee has many friends at work or in the community, is actively
involved in community organizations, and has a spouse who also has an excellent job

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Embeddedness

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are motivated
to help the organization and their coworkers by doing the “little things” that they are not
required to do. Examples of OCBs include staying late to get a project done, helping a
coworker who is behind in her job, mentoring a new employee, volunteering for committees, and flying in coach when the employee might be entitled to first class

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Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs)