Employee Wages and Job Satisfaction in Media

This professional project examines the association between employee wages and job satisfaction within Berkeley Company's communication media sector. Students will analyze factors like job family, job grade, salary levels, and employee performance data to understand how these elements influence worker morale and productivity. Utilizing publicly available survey data on employee satisfaction and referencing relevant academic studies, this project aims to shed light on the positive correlation between fair compensation and a motivated workforce in the media industry.

Professional Project 1
Employee Wages in Communication Media
Field of research: The Human resource has recently been the key target of most management
companies. Various forms of communication in human resource department are necessary for
significant determination of workplace structure including the amount of wages of the employees. For
sustaining employee satisfaction, motivation and morale, association between employee base and
income of employees play a crucial role in communication field. When there is no association
between employee income and workforce of employees in terms of job field, the organization might
observe a decline in productivity and performance as employees could realize themselves as
undervalued, under-waged and unappreciated.
The topic focuses on major workforce executed by employees, distribution of income level of
Berkeley Company and accounting of personnel program. The accounting of employee wages takes
into account of work status, relocation and supervisory relationship.
Secondary data: Publicly available survey data on employee satisfaction could be found in
https://hr.berkeley.edu/node/5305
Research Question: The study tries to examine the association between human resources of the
employees and their wage amount in Berkeley.
Variables:
1. Job family of the job field (example- Broadcast communication, Digital communication, General
communication, Media communication, Publication and Production)
2. Job grade of the employees
3. Minimum, Mid and Maximum amount of salary of the employees
Search terms: employee performance, job field, job family, job performance, job grade, amount of
monthly income.
Merged articles and reference list: Many Studies show a positive relationship exists between
employee income and human resource management in terms of job grade (Galinsky, E. and Stein, P.J.,
1990). Some study indicated that pay equity and product quality has insignificant association
(Cowherd, D.M. and Levine, D.I., 1992). The positive correlation between industrial grade and employee
income explains positive wage model in Berkeley industry.

Professional Project 2

Professional Project 3
References
Cowherd, D. M., & Levine, D. I. (1992). Product quality and pay equity between lower-level
employees and top management: An investigation of distributive justice
theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 302-320.
Galinsky, E., & Stein, P. J. (1990). The impact of human resource policies on employees:
Balancing work/family life. Journal of Family Issues, 11(4), 368-383.
Hussin, A. (2011). The relationship between job satisfaction and job performance among
employee engagement: An explorative study. Issues in Business Management and
Economics, 4(1), 1-8.
Shmailan, A. S. B. (2016). The relationship between job satisfaction, job performance and
employees in tradewinds group of companies (Doctoral dissertation, Open University
Malaysia).