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The assignment for this unit is the Experiential Exercise at the end of Chapter 3 in your text, entitled “What Factors Are Most Important to Your Job Satisfaction.” Read the exercise and review the list of 21 factors or attributes.

EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE

What Factors Are Most Important to Your Job Satisfaction?

Most of us probably want a job we think will satisfy us. But because no job is perfect, we often have to trade off job attributes. One job may pay well but provide limited opportunities for advancement or skill development. Another may offer work we enjoy but have poor benefits. The following is a list of 21 job factors or attributes:

       Autonomy and independence.

       Benefits.

       Career advancement opportunities.

       Career development opportunities.

       Compensation/pay.

       Communication between employees and management.

       Contribution of work to organization’s business goals.

       Feeling safe in the work environment.

       Flexibility to balance life and work issues.

       Job security.

       Job-specific training.

       Management recognition of employee job performance.

       Meaningfulness of job.

       Networking.

       Opportunities to use skills/abilities.

       Organization’s commitment to professional development.

       Overall corporate culture.

       Relationship with co-workers.

       Relationship with immediate supervisor.

       The work itself.

       The variety of work.

Once you have reviewed the text exercise, go to the Society for Human Resource Management’s website (SHRM®.org), and review their results of a study conducted on 600 employees about job satisfaction. Link: http://www.shrm.org/research/surveyfindings/articles/documents/11-0618%20job_satisfaction_figures.pdf

Once you have reviewed both the experiential exercise and the online study results, complete the following Assignment:

Assignment

In essay format, explain your top five factors and why they are important to your job satisfaction.

The minimum page count requirement for this project is two to three pages of body text, this does not include the cover page or the references page. APA format.