Job satisfaction among the employee of manufacturing firm, Petaling Jaya

Job satisfaction is one of the most important subject that need to be considered in today’s working environment. Most of the employers are able to achieve their organization goal by increasing their employee’s job satisfaction level. At the same time, there are still some of the organization who fa...

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Main Author:	Sivaranjini, Narapan@Nadarajan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TS155-194 Production management Operations management
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description	Job satisfaction is one of the most important subject that need to be considered in today’s working environment. Most of the employers are able to achieve their organization goal by increasing their employee’s job satisfaction level. At the same time, there are still some of the organization who failed to look into employee’s job satisfaction towards the organization. This situation may lead to employers failed to compete and sustain in the business world. Manufacturing firm plays an important role to the economy of Malaysia. Employee’s job satisfaction playing an important role in order to increase firm’s goal and target. Researcher found that there are several influencing factors that contribute to employee’s job satisfaction level. Since, there is major decrease on job satisfaction level among employees in manufacturing firm, researcher has selected Petaling Jaya, area as the area to conduct this research. The research is mainly about the influencing factors of job satisfaction level among the employees of manufacturing firm in Petaling Jaya. Influencing factors such as salary, benefit packages, workload, rewards, and training and development were tested in this study to understand the significant relationship among those influencing factors and job satisfaction level among employees in manufacturing firms in Petaling Jaya. Data collection method was done by distributing questioners to random manufacturing firm in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. SPSS was used to analyze gathered data. Workload factor being identified that contribute the most to job satisfaction level among employees in manufacturing firm, Petaling Jaya Malaysia. Conclusion was made employees training and development having significant relationship between job satisfactions among the employee of manufacturing firm, Petaling Jaya
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title	Job satisfaction among the employee of manufacturing firm, Petaling Jaya
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spelling	my-uum-etd.54832021-04-05T01:27:29Z Job satisfaction among the employee of manufacturing firm, Petaling Jaya 2015 Sivaranjini, Narapan@Nadarajan Mohd Yunus, Jasmani Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business TS155-194 Production management. Operations management HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment Job satisfaction is one of the most important subject that need to be considered in today’s working environment. Most of the employers are able to achieve their organization goal by increasing their employee’s job satisfaction level. At the same time, there are still some of the organization who failed to look into employee’s job satisfaction towards the organization. This situation may lead to employers failed to compete and sustain in the business world. Manufacturing firm plays an important role to the economy of Malaysia. Employee’s job satisfaction playing an important role in order to increase firm’s goal and target. Researcher found that there are several influencing factors that contribute to employee’s job satisfaction level. Since, there is major decrease on job satisfaction level among employees in manufacturing firm, researcher has selected Petaling Jaya, area as the area to conduct this research. The research is mainly about the influencing factors of job satisfaction level among the employees of manufacturing firm in Petaling Jaya. Influencing factors such as salary, benefit packages, workload, rewards, and training and development were tested in this study to understand the significant relationship among those influencing factors and job satisfaction level among employees in manufacturing firms in Petaling Jaya. Data collection method was done by distributing questioners to random manufacturing firm in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. SPSS was used to analyze gathered data. 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