Job Satisfaction In Today's Work Environment Ban

Job Satisfaction In Today's Work Environment

BankAmerica has a new CEO. So do the Times Mirror Co., Host Marriott, CompuServe, and ad agency N.W. Ayer & Partners, to name just a few. Robert Lowes, Burger King's new boss, is the company's third in six years. At California clothing maker Esprit de Corp., David Folkman, the fourth CEO in five years, stepped down in July. Another search party has been summoned. If the revolving door at the top of U.S. corporations seems to be spinning so fast that it's just a blur of pinstripes, you're not imagining it. A new study, co-written by headhunting firm Paul Ray Berndtson and researchers at Cornell University, has tracked the career moves of more than 1,400 senior managers and found that 42 percent change jobs (Davidmann, M., 1996, "Inflation"), either in-house or at a new company, every two years. What society is seeing is a 12-month honeymoon period, where executives experience high job satisfaction. After they begin to get involved in the nitty-gritty of the new position, that initial enthusiasm seems to fade. Then comes what has been dubbed job hangover-or, call back that headhunter immediately.

Such hopscotching will not necessarily bring happiness. By analyzing job satisfaction among the chronically restless it was found that the thrill of the honeymoon decreases with each job change, while the hangover does not. Of course, every rule has its exceptions. Look at Richard Irvine, 54, newly named president of Mikohn Gaming, a fas

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ves would like to have a share in the enterprise, feel that common ownership assists involvement. Sisk (1994) looks in some detail at whether there is a relationship between 'job satisfaction' and productivity. Sisk considers that 'feelings of self-improvement, achievement, and the desire for the acceptance of greater responsibility' are more important than money for persuading people to increase productivity. He interviewed American engineers and accountants and on the whole they appear to have been quite frustrated. Sisk says that 'job satisfaction is but one of several factors making up the complex of needs � and, as yet, there is no demonstrable relationship between job satisfaction and productivity'. These factors were felt to provide reward and incentive, that is were worth straining to achieve. The degree to which they were lacking was at times felt to be dissatisfying. All the factors are money factors, consist of material rewards. Employers first and foremost work for remuneration and want a greater share of the benefits of ownership. Interesting is that the question of job satisfaction just did not arise to any significant extent. On the whole the employers were satisfied with the work they were doing. Generally in p

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