A social work study on the effect of gender and marital status on job satisfaction

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Job satisfaction plays an important role on increasing business productivity and efficiency. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between job satisfaction and employees' personal characteristics including gender, marital status, etc. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and distributes it among 244 out of 800 employees who worked for cement industry in Iran. The data are analyzed using different statistical tests such as t-student and analysis of variance. The results indicate that while there was not any meaningful relationship between gender and job satisfaction there was some meaningful relationship between marital status and job satisfaction.

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Investigating different factors influencing job satisfaction: A case study of cement industry

Shirvani¹,

Mohammadi²,

Iravani³

et al. 2013

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“…Khodaei et al (2013) performed a study on the effect of social capital on job satisfaction and citizenship behavior among employees of a governmental university in Iran and confirmed that there were some positive and meaningful relationship between social capital and job satisfaction. Iravani et al (2013) performed a social work study on the effect of gender and marital status on job satisfaction. They reported that there was no difference between female and male employees in terms of job satisfaction and confirmed that marital status had no significance on job satisfaction.…”

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A study on relationship between female employees’ organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction within organization

Iranshahi¹,

Ghasemi²,

Motlagh³

2013

This paper presents an investigation to assess the relationship between female employees' organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction within organization. A questionnaire is designed and distributed among employees who work in city of Qom, Iran and after analyzing the responses by SPSS software program, the relationships between variables are assessed by Pearson test after confirming the normality of the data using Kolmogrov-Smirnov test. The results of the studies reflect a strong relationship between citizen-organization behavior of female employees and job satisfaction. In addition, the survey examines six sub-hypotheses and confirms that there are positive and meaningful relationships between female employees' custom, altruism, work consciousness, mutual coordination, fairness and courtesy on one side and job satisfaction on the other side.

A social work study on the effect of gender and marital status on job satisfaction

Iravani¹,

Hosseini²,

Rajabi³

et al. 2013

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Job satisfaction plays an essential role on having happy society since people may have better lives when they fully satisfied with their jobs. In this paper, we present an empirical study to investigate the effect of marital status as well as educational background on job satisfaction. The study performs the study among university employees of Khomeinishar branch located in province of Esfahan, Iran and all questions are designed in Likert scale of 1-5 based on Brayfield & Rothes Index of job satisfaction. Using a sample of 100 people, the study first uses Kolmogrov-Smirnov test and verifies that all data are normally distributed (α=5%). The survey also finds that there is no difference between female and male employees in terms of job satisfaction (α=5%). In addition, the study confirms that marital status has no significance on job satisfaction (α=5%)