Job satisfaction among Greek academic librarians

Togia, Aspasia; Κουστέλιος, Αθανάσιος; Tsigilis, Nikolaos

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2004.01.004

Cited by 56 publications

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“…This finding is being supported by the findings of [34] and [9] who found in their different studies that opportunity for job promotions is one of the factors that generate job satisfaction for librarians. But [25] and [32] found in their studies that one of the major sources of job dissatisfaction is the lack of opportunities for promotion. Finally, this study revealed low rate of satisfaction in connection with salary and this is line with the findings of [25] and [33] who discovered low satisfaction with pay in their studies.…”

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“…Finally, this study revealed low rate of satisfaction in connection with salary and this is line with the findings of [25] and [33] who discovered low satisfaction with pay in their studies. Satisfaction with my fringe benefits was also was rated low as [32] and [33] discovered in their studies that librarians were dissatisfied among other things with their benefits.…”

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Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction of Librarian in Federal and State University Libraries in Southern Nigeria

Ikonne¹,

Onuoha²

2015

OALib

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This study investigated the job satisfaction factors influencing the job satisfaction of librarians in Federal and State University libraries in Southern Nigeria. Job satisfaction is an important concept that can affect labor market behavior as it has a great influence on job-related behaviors such as productivity, work effort, absenteeism, turnover rates, and employee relations. The study adopted the survey research design. The population was made up of 500 librarians in thirty seven federal and state university libraries in Southern Nigeria. Sampling was enumeration as all members of the population were given the opportunity to participate. A questionnaire was used for data collection and was analyzed using percentages, standard deviation, and mean. Among other factors indentified, it was shown that job security, satisfactory relationship with my supervisor, satisfactory interaction with colleagues and satisfactory interaction with information user/customer/ clients were significant factors that influenced the librarians' job satisfaction. However, satisfaction with salary and fringe benefits, working condition, and opportunities to conduct research were rated low which signifies that the librarians are not satisfied with these job satisfaction facets. Based on this, recommendations such as library administrators considering improving the salary levels and the fringe benefits of the librarians, improving their working conditions; and granting the librarians opportunities to conduct research were made.

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Section: Discussion Of Findingmentioning

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Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction of Librarian in Federal and State University Libraries in Southern Nigeria

Ikonne¹,

Onuoha²

2015

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“…On the other hand, motivation factors could be thought of as achievement, recognition, the nature of the job, responsibility and promotion (Lu et. al., 2005;Togia et. al., 2004;Tütüncü, 2000;Tütüncü & Çiç ek, 2000;Akoğlan & Kozak, 1995).…”

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The Effects of Managers’ Business Ethics Applications on Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Study on Hotels in Turkey

Güçer

Pelit

Demirdağ

et al. 2016

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Thus far, much research on ethical aspects of different areas (business, marketing, medicine, managing and etc.) is made and various models are introduced in accordance with these researches. Each of these introduced models studies matters carrying ethical importance related to various areas. These researches in the aspect of establishments focus on whether the establishment applications are generally suitable to ethical standards or testing ethical appropriateness of manager behaviours. However, this research aims to introduce at which level the job satisfaction of employees, which are effected by factors such as physical conditions, payment types, social and safety opportunities and management types, are affected by the applications of managers in the extent of job ethics. In this context in the analysis related to data obtained from questionnaire studies on 813 employees working in city and resort hotel establishments, it is concluded that both job satisfaction and appropriateness of manager behaviours to ethical principles of employees working in city hotel establishments are more positive than resort hotel establishments. Besides, it is introduced by correlation and regression analysis that compliance of manager behaviours with ethical principles affects the job satisfaction level of employees drastically.

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“…Thus, employee satisfaction related to hopes of the employee about the workplace and his approaches forward his job. Job satisfaction is a function of the extent to which one"s needs are satisfied in a job (Togia et al, 2004).…”

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Factors Affecting Employee Satisfaction of the Public and Private Sector Organizations of Pakistan

Masood¹,

Ul-Ain²,

Aslam³

et al. 2014

ijhrs

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The purpose of this study is to find out the factors that affect employee satisfaction and how much is the intensity. Specifically, we took Working conditions, pay & promotion, Job safety and security, Training and development and employee empowerment as the antecedents to see their impact on employee satisfaction and further the impact of employee satisfaction on Job performance and employee turnover intention. This can help us to better understand about the satisfaction level of employees and how we can motivate employees to perform their job efficiently and effectively. The Sample was collected from different organizations of Bahawalpur City (Punjab, Pakistan). Two main clusters were targeted to collect the sample data university employees and some private organizations in the city. The questionnaire was distributed among 200 respondents in Bahawalpur City. 155 questionnaires were selected and rests of the questionnaires were not included in the further analysis due to incomplete or invalid responses. The survey study addresses two major purposes; first is to analyze the relationship of different variables with employee satisfaction, second to collect information about the different characteristics. After collecting the completed questionnaires, these questionnaires were coded and entered into SPSS sheet and the hypothesis was tested using regression analysis. Result of our study show significant relationship of working conditions, Job Safety and security, Training and Development and Employee Empowerment on Employee Satisfaction and Job Performance. However, Pay and promotion has no significant relation with Job Performance. Employee Satisfaction has a significant negative relation with turnover intention.

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Job satisfaction among Greek academic librarians

Cited by 56 publications

References 23 publications

Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction of Librarian in Federal and State University Libraries in Southern Nigeria

Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction of Librarian in Federal and State University Libraries in Southern Nigeria

The Effects of Managers’ Business Ethics Applications on Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Study on Hotels in Turkey

Factors Affecting Employee Satisfaction of the Public and Private Sector Organizations of Pakistan

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