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Publication date: 27 April 2010

Jonathan H. Westover, Andrew R. Westover and L. Alan Westover

The purpose of this research is to explore key work domains that impact worker job satisfaction and organizational commitment, which in turn impact long‐term worker productivity…

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Purpose

The purpose of this research is to explore key work domains that impact worker job satisfaction and organizational commitment, which in turn impact long‐term worker productivity and performance.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper utilizes factor analysis, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis, and basic descriptive statistics (Pearson Correlations, standard deviations, means) to explore the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment and 17 unique work domains.

Findings

Survey data confirm 17 statistically valid and reliable work domains that are relevant to understanding worker job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Additionally, OLS regression results produce highly explanatory models of worker motivation and job satisfaction.

Research limitations/implications

The main limitation of the research is the lack of generalizability of the findings – that it represents data from just one organization, not a sampling of organizations. While the statistical results are highly significant and demonstrate a high level of validity and reliability in the measures, research findings can only tentatively be applied to other organizations.

Practical implications

In an increasingly competitive global market, more and more organizations have to ask the difficult question, “How can we get more out of our employees?” However, although there are diverse “quick‐fix” methods of achieving rather short‐term gains in worker productivity and performance, long‐term and enduring improvement requires a strengthening and spreading of core organizational values and beliefs that help to create a high engagement and achievement organizational culture.

Originality/value

The main contribution of this paper is the development of 17 unique and highly statistically reliable and valid work domains relevant to organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Additionally, the new “passion” domain is found to be particularly predictive of worker job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

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International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, vol. 59 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-0401

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Publication date: 29 November 2019

Richard E. Killblane

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Delivering Victory
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ISBN: 978-1-78754-603-5

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Publication date: 8 October 2024

Mikee C. Talamayan, Mendiola Teng-Calleja and Jaimee Felice Caringal-Go

This research focused on exploring factors that engender the work motivation of Gen Z employees and determined whether these factors affected their job satisfaction, engagement…

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Purpose

This research focused on exploring factors that engender the work motivation of Gen Z employees and determined whether these factors affected their job satisfaction, engagement and affective commitment to their organizations.

Design/methodology/approach

The study employed a sequential mixed-methods approach, starting with 40 qualitative interviews to determine the work motivation factors of Gen Z employees. Findings of the qualitative study were then validated through an online survey that gathered data from 132 Gen Z employees. The quantitative study tested a model that relates factors that contribute to the motivation of Gen Z and positive employee outcomes – affective commitment, job satisfaction and work engagement.

Findings

Several factors were found as contributors to the work motivation of Gen Z employees: learning and development, family, impact on others and society, passion and enjoyment, financial security, ability to provide for oneself, personal achievement and self-rewards. The result of the structural equation modeling showed that the presence of motivating factors at work is a significant predictor of the outcome variables. Moreover, affective commitment was also found to partially mediate the relationship between the motivating factors and outcome variables – job satisfaction and work engagement.

Originality/value

This study addresses the dearth of empirical studies on factors that motivate Gen Z employees (the youngest employee cohort that recently joined the workforce) and how these contribute to positive work outcomes. Findings may help organizations curate their human resources management programs to attract, engage and motivate their Gen Z employees.

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Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2049-3983

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Publication date: 1 March 1937

IT is very appropriate that this number of THE LIBRARY WORLD should be devoted to the subject of cataloguing. This has become current in a special degree owing to the activity of…

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IT is very appropriate that this number of THE LIBRARY WORLD should be devoted to the subject of cataloguing. This has become current in a special degree owing to the activity of the A.L.A. and the L.A. committees on both sides of the Atlantic, who are engaged in reviewing the Anglo‐American Code of Cataloguing Rules. Cataloguing is a subject that figures more in the minds of candidates for examinations than it does in the average conversations of librarians, but there is no more important subject in the librarian's life and no more significant activity. Our readers may not accept the implications of the somewhat vigorous “Letters on Our Affairs” which appear in this number, but it could be urged that there are many things to consider in cataloguing which have immediate importance. The matter was a simple one in former days. Forty years ago every library in this country of any size found it possible to issue a printed catalogue of some sort or other. The objections to these printed catalogues are commonplace to‐day; they were expensive, their cost was not recovered by sales, and they were incomplete from the beginning. The point is that libraries somehow managed to publish them, and those libraries were, as our correspondent suggests, of as good service to literature in its best sense as are present libraries.

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New Library World, vol. 39 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 9 October 2019

Linda Chisholm

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Teacher Preparation in South Africa
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-694-7

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