The impact of life events on job satisfaction

Georgellis, Yannis; Lange, Thomas; Tabvuma, Vurain

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2011.12.005

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“…In the subsample of men and women full-timers, the smaller effect of intrinsic orientations on job satisfaction was only significant for middle-aged women. This is in line with the workfamily conflict literature which suggests that women are more likely to experience declining interests towards work than men due to increased family roles after they enter this stage of life (Frome et al, 2006;Georgellis et al, 2012). Moreover, the additional positive effect of human orientations is found to be particularly strong among those women at prime reproductive ages.…”

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Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction

Zou¹

2015

Work, Employment and Society

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This article studies the gender gap in job satisfaction and argues that the observed gender difference is a consequence of the heterogeneity in work orientations between men and women. Using data from the 2006 Skills Survey, the analysis yields three major findings. The first shows that women, either in full-time or part-time employment, report significantly higher levels of job satisfaction than men. Secondly, work orientations are closely associated with one's job satisfaction and their relationships vary significantly across men, women full-time and part-time workers. Finally and most importantly, the observed gender satisfaction differential is eliminated once work orientations are taken into consideration.

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Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction

Zou¹

2015

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Women are adversely affected by work‐life conflict to a greater extent than men because they take greater responsibility for household work and child rearing. Recently, researchers have shown that life events, such as marriage and the birth of the first child, reduce women's job satisfaction in the longer term, especially in the public sector, while these events have no statistically significant effect on the job satisfaction of men (Georgellis, Lange, & Tabvuma, ). To recap earlier observations, public‐sector organizations are more likely to adopt employee‐friendly orientation training and HR policies that encourages work‐life integration, while private‐sector organizations are more likely to have orientation training that focuses on newcomers’ getting up to speed as quickly as possible.…”

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Orientation Training and Job Satisfaction: A Sector and Gender Analysis

Tabvuma

Georgellis

Lange

2015

Human Resource Management

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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we investigate how various types of job training impact upon employees’ job satisfaction and its domains. We find that orientation training exerts a significant positive effect on newcomer male employees’ job satisfaction in both the private and public sectors, but it increases the job satisfaction of newcomer female employees only in the public sector. Other types of job training have only a weak effect on job satisfaction. We attribute the predominance of orientation training as a strong predictor of job satisfaction to its important function of facilitating the workplace socialization of new employees by reducing the uncertainty about aspects of the job that are not always easily contractible. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…Even though people who gain higher income seem to be happier people, their happiness level is affected by working hours (Binswanger, 2006;Paul & Guilbert, 2013). People may be unsatisfied with their jobs if they have long working hours (Georgellis, Lange, & Tabvuma, 2012).…”

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A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace

Wesarat¹,

Sharif²,

Majid³

2014

ASS

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Happiness at the workplace refers to how satisfied people are with their work and lives. The idea of happiness is related to individual's subjective well-being. Happiness at the workplace is crucial for improving productivity in any organization. Happy people are productive people while those people who are unhappy may not pay full attention to any task. Some scholars believe that organizations which are able to maintain long-term happiness at the workplace could probably increase and sustain productivity. Therefore, they should know what factors could affect employee happiness in order to effectively enhance happiness at the workplace. But research on employee happiness was rarely seen in the past. The issue of happiness at the workplace needs to be properly conceptualized so that useful research on it could be conducted. This paper presents a potential conceptual framework of happiness at the workplace that could give valuable contribution to future research in this area.

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The impact of life events on job satisfaction

Cited by 72 publications

References 40 publications

Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction

Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction

Orientation Training and Job Satisfaction: A Sector and Gender Analysis

A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace

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