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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Business issues, competition and entrepreneurship
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Business issues, competition and entrepreneurship series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Predictors of satisfaction with career and compensation among physicians in a multispecialty academic practice / Sandhya K. Rao, Sara Lehrhoff, Andrea Litvak, Alexa Kimball, David Torchiana, Timothy G. Ferris, Mass General Physicians Organization, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School -- Job satisfaction and well-being among university workers / Pablo González-Rico, Maria José Chambel, Eloísa Guerrero, and Francisco Cesário, Faculty of Education, University of Extremadura, Spain, and others -- Determinants of job satisfaction : living one's calling as a neglected predictor? / Tamara Hagmaier, Andrea E. Abele, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany -- A new approach to understanding the dynamics of job satisfaction / Alexis Bañón-Gomis, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Faculty of Business Administration, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, and others -- It is your interest that matters : motivation shapes career engagement patterns / Bick-har Lam, Chi-keung Cheng, Zi Yan, Min Yang, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education -- There is no fear in love : the giving of social support to students enhances teachers' career development / Bick-har Lam, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education -- The effect of pay cuts on psychological well-being and job satisfaction / Stavros A. Drakopoulos, Katerina Grimani, University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Athens, Greece -- Job and life satisfaction in association with psychological well-being in nursing / Mateja Lorber, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia -- Factors determining EFL teachers' job satisfaction in intermediate public schools in the state of Kuwait / Wafaa Salem Al-Yaseen, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Kuwait University, Kifan, Kuwait -- Index. |
| Summary |
Job satisfaction is a central concept in work and organizational psychology as it is associated with important individual as well as organizational outcomes. Work is the number one activity that occupies most of adults' waking time. Being satisfied with one's job, which is defined as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experience, is related to important work-related and health-related outcomes (e.g., higher job performance, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, life satisfaction, lower absenteeism and lower count. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Job satisfaction.
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Job satisfaction. |
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Work environment.
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Work environment. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology. |
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- General. |
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness. |
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Success. |
| Added Author |
Osbourne, Rosalie, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Job satisfaction Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Publishers, [2015] 9781634636490 (hardcover) (DLC) 2014045015 |
| ISBN |
9781634636742 ebook |
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1634636740 |
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9781634636490 hardcover |
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163463649X |
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