The Dynamics of Job Satisfaction — A Longitudinal Study

Abstract

Personnel managers are concerned with making effective use of people. Job satisfaction is thus an issue of fundamental importance in personnel management. Interest in job satisfaction has been maintained largely because of the costs which dissatisfaction entails. Job dissatisfaction has been linked with labour turnover, absenteeism, poor performance and productivity, and low morale. Many of these areas are ones which personnel managers have been able to cost. Job dissatisfaction has also been linked to industrial phenomena such as strikes, grievances, industrial accidents and sabotage.

Citation

Kiely, J. (1986), "The Dynamics of Job Satisfaction — A Longitudinal Study", Personnel Review, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 7-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055543