Discussion response

Over the years I have had a few jobs in a variety of different career fields. While I enjoyed majority of my roles while working at these jobs I have one job in particular that had potential for me to enjoy, but it lacked in some areas leading me to want a change in employment. My first job was working for a company in the food service industry where we provided services for an entire hospital. This was an entry level job and each worker was trained on multiple positions so you weren’t always doing the same thing every work shift. I became good at every position and began to venture out into higher positions earning less than what the position paid and eventually supervision saw that as an opportunity to save the company money and having me fill that position without giving me the proper raise that the position requires. This job was lacking the proper recognition of their employees and working at only improving the supervisions success as employees were being productive saving the company money. Although taking a bigger role in an organization is good for job growth, my motivation began to diminish as I was not getting raises after years in my position and newer employees were making more than me as the company raised their minimum wage. Redmond & Bower (2015) covered some myths and job satisfaction suggesting productive employees are happy within their job and points to some studies that have suggested otherwise. In my case I began to be very productive in my work center in the hopes of moving up in the company and learning more to improve my resume. My productivity was increasing while my motivation began to decrease as my work ethic was going unnoticed. I believe if my supervision had properly taken the steps to stabilize job performance and motivation they could have a healthier work environment.

 

Redmond, B. F., & Bower, C. P. (2015). Job satisfaction. In Work Attitudes and Job Motivation. 

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