JOB SATISFACTION ARTICLES - COMPARISON UPON SELECTED CRITERIA

Dragana Došenović

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FUEO1804363D
First page
363
Last page
378

Abstract


Although the concept of job satisfaction has been explored and analyzed in numerous studies, it can be noticed that this concept has been studied in various ways. For this reason, the subject of research in this paper is a set of different scientific articles with topic related to job satisfaction. As the basic aim of this paper is to gain insight into the concept of job satisfaction, a research was carried out on a convenience sample of scientific articles. The results show that authors use different approaches when defining, studying and evaluating job satisfaction in their research. As a result, different methodologies, job satisfaction factors and scales designed for the assessment of job satisfaction can be found in existing literature.

Keywords

job satisfaction, job satisfaction factors, the assessment of job satisfaction, job satisfaction scales

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