Literature Review - Job Satisfaction

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Introduction
The attitude of an employee is extremely important for managing and determining the
behaviors of the workers in a particular organization. There is a usual judgment regarding the
employees that A satisfied worker is always a productive worker . Also, when the employees are
quite satisfied with the organizational culture, a pleasant working atmosphere is created in the
organization. The job satisfaction of the staffs play a crucial role on the organizational
performance. Notably, it is quite essential to know about the way the staffs can be retained
through various motivations in order to achieve the expected results. The achievements and the
targets depend on the satisfaction of the staffs and this in turn contributes on the success of the
organization, its growth, the productivity and the quality of the work. Hence, the job satisfaction
and its connection with the performance of an organization has turned into a serious topic for the
research studies. Hence, the impact of the job satisfaction on an organizational performance is
required to be examined and analysed. It is also considered what kind of reward can determine
the employee job satisfaction and its very connection with the way an organization will perform.
In this paper , the literature will be reviewed related to the impact of employee satisfaction on
the organizational performance taking different scholarly articles into account.
Employee satisfaction
The employee satisfaction is found to be one of the fundamental attitudes which leave
impact on the human conduct in a specific work environment. Hence, the researchers have
accurately measured the job satisfaction along with its understanding of relationships for the
people who are working. According to the views of Yousef (2017), employee satisfactions is
regarding the way employee adversely or emphatically feel towards their jobs. It is reaction to

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the commitments of a person towards the social and the physical circumstances of their specific
workplace. The job satisfaction as a concept actually demonstrates the degree of the
expectations in the personal agreement of a person. The occupational fulfillment on the other
hand is higher for those people who actually comprehend a specific instigation in terms of their
connection with the organization where they are employed. The occupational fulfillment on the
other hand is the measure of the delight/ satisfaction that has been recognized with a particular
job. It has been suggested by Smith, Kendall and Hulin (2017) that the fulfillment of a work is
the volume to which a person is quite delighted and then satisfied with the work. There has
been an important research on a fulfillment of a work which consists of the objectives and the
goals deciding this specific outlook along with the organizational components. Taken for
example, the relationships with the directors, the colleagues, the work clues, the working
conditions are the organizational components. On the other hand, Nhuta and Nhuta (2017) have
said that a person having a high level of job satisfaction possess some compelling attitudes that
are close to the jobs and someone who has baffled the job possess some of the negative
behaviours regarding the job . As per the views of Niemiec and Spence (2017), the fulfillment of
work is one of the most charming kingdom with the result of an appraisal of method studies of a
person.
Mashlow’ hierarchy of need for employee motivation
The motivation of the employees has been one of the most significant and challenging
duties of the management department in an organization. The need theories actually attempt in
identifying the internal factors which can motivate the behaviors of an individuals founded on
the premises of unfulfilled needs. The needs are considered as the psychological or the
physiological insufficiencies which can provoke different types of behavioral responses. The