Employee Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Job satisfaction has a big impact on how an employee performs his job. Both elements have an impact on job safety and employee perception of it. A satisfied employee devotes himself to work, performs orders better, cares for others and for himself. He feels safe in the enterprise. The aim of the paper was to assess employ-ees' 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 metallurgi-cal enterprise who were asked to assess level of their job satisfaction. The employees defined their job satisfaction by referring to 20 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. This paper analyzes the level of job satisfaction among employees of commercial banks along with the consideration of gender, age and experience differences. Four commercial banks were selected using purposive sampling method for the study. Further, a total of 260 respondents were selected randomly from the four banks' head offices and branch offices located in Kathmandu Metropolis. The modified Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) was used to gather data about the job satisfaction of respondents. The results indicate that almost 66% of employees are satisfied or highly satisfied with their jobs. 'Job security' is the most significant factor of job satisfaction to the employees of commercial banks in Nepal. Level of job satisfaction does not differ significantly between male and female employees. However, there are significant differences in level of job satisfaction among various age groups of employees.