ronting behavioral care workers in mental health care provider organizations, the issue of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among such workers becomes and especially important factor for such organizations. Patient care quality and continued organizational viability are dependent in great part on the perceptions of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction by behavioral care workers.
One research question will be investigated in this study. This research question is as follows:
What is the relationship between employee productivity and employee perceptions of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction among behavioral care workers in private mental health provider organizations?
The results of the research that will be conducted for this study will be reported in four sections following this introductory material. A review of the literature relevant to the problem investigated is presented in the following section. The method that will be followed in the conduct of the research is presented in the third section. Following the conduct of the research, the findings of the data analysis and a discussion of the findings will be reported in separate sections of the study.
Literature relevant to the problem investigated is reviewed. Consequently, literature involving job satisfaction and productivity is reviewed.
Edwin Locke (1983) defined job satisfaction as "a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experiences" (p. 1300). Job satisfaction, however, is a complex factor, and the level of job satisfaction among a group of individuals is the product of the interaction of a variety of other factors. Job satisfaction has been linked to the degree of autonomy employees feel that they have in the performance of their duties, and, in this context, job satisfaction has been defined as the extent to which one perceives that her or his organizational needs are satisfied by the job (Sisk, 1...