Job Satisfaction, why is it Important Not Only for Employee but for the Employer Too

Abstract

Job satisfaction is a crucial relation between employees and employer. Both have an impact on job safety and employee perception of it. A satisfied employee commit himself to work, performs tasks better, pay attention for others and for himself. He feels safe in the organisation. The aim of the paper was to estimate employees' job satisfaction and their work performance with use of simply survey. In order to achieve this aim, a survey was conducted among employees of a chosen metallurgical industry who were asked to estimate level of their job satisfaction. The employees defined their job satisfaction by referring to 9 statements describing this satisfaction and evaluating three factors that were used to compute the satisfaction index. The survey allowed for indication the general level of employee satisfaction.