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The objective of the present empirical piece of research work is to examine the predicting effects of perceived organizational support and personality dimensions on job satisfaction. 61 school teachers were drawn from different school, by incidental-cum random sampling technique from different school at Raipur city to serve as participants in the present research work. Correlational research design was employed. Job satisfaction was measured by Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al., 1967). Perceived organizational support was measured by 8 item survey scale of perceived organizational support (Eisenberger, Hungtington, Hutchison, & Sowa, 1986). Personality dimensions were measured by EPQRS-H (Tiwari, Singh, & Singh, 2009). Predication effect was worked out through regression analysis. Results of study indicated that, perceived organizational support was positively linked withjob satisfaction. Further, neuroticism was negatively and extraversion was positively associated with job satisfaction. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of the predicting effect of perceived organizational support and personality dimensions onj ob satisfaction.
Keywords: perceived organizational support, personality dimensions and job satisfaction
Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction has been defined in many different ways. Some believe it is simply how content an individual is with his or herjob, in other words, whether or not they like thejob or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision (Spector, 1997). Others believe it is not so simplistic as this definition suggests and instead that multidimensional psychological responses to one'sjob are involved (Hulin & Judge, 2003). Researchers have also noted that job satisfaction measures vary in the extent to which they measure feelings about the job (Thompson & Phua, 2012) or cognitions about thejob (Moorman, 1993). A more recent definition of the concept ofjob satisfaction is from Hulin and Judge (2003) who have noted that job satisfaction includes multidimensional psychological responses to an individual's job, and that these personal responses have cognitive (evaluative), affective (or emotional), and behavioral components.
Perceived organizational support andjob satisfaction
Perceived organizational support (POS) is the degree to which employees believe that their organization values their contributions and cares about their well-being and fulfills socioemotional needs (Eisenberger, Huntington, Hutchison, & Sowa, 1986). POS is generally thought to be the organization's contribution to a positive reciprocity dynamic with employees, as employees tend...