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How would you define job satisfaction?

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Job satisfaction essentially represents employee's overall evaluation of their jobs, including feelings of positive affect toward their jobs or job situations.

Job satisfaction can be defined as an employee's overall evaluation of his or her job as favorable or unfavorable (e.g., Locke, 1976; Spector, 1997a). In this sense, job satisfaction is basically an employee's attitude toward his or her job (see Eagly & Chaiken, 1993).

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Jex, S. M., & Britt, T. W. (2008). Organizational Psychology. A Scientist-Practitioner Approach (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons.

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There are many definitions for "job satisfaction". Locke & Weiss (2002) describe job satisfaction as "a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job". In other words, it is the person's state of mind in relation to their work and is influenced on factors such as the relationship with a supervisor, the physical environment, and how fulfilled they feel when accomplishing their work.
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