Relationship between Personality Types and Job Satisfaction among Employees in Malaysian Manufacturing

Employee job satisfaction is one of the important measurement aspects of an employee work life. Over the years, rich and mass knowledge in terms of academic research and management practice has been collected to understand further employee job satisfaction, especially for a firm, which work design i...

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Main Authors: Mohamed, Muhamed Shabir Bashir, Asaari, Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan, Desa, Nasina Mat
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/41079/1/2016_RJSS_msbm_mhaha_nmd_9%281%29_23-28.pdf
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author Mohamed, Muhamed Shabir Bashir
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description Employee job satisfaction is one of the important measurement aspects of an employee work life. Over the years, rich and mass knowledge in terms of academic research and management practice has been collected to understand further employee job satisfaction, especially for a firm, which work design is highly dependent on human workforce. Manufacturing industry is categorized under this group. Employee job satisfaction could be explained in terms of employee personality. As such, this research is design to understand the relationship between personality type and job satisfaction level of employees. For this paper, blue collar employees from manufacturing industry ware chosen. It is hoped that this paper could contribute to the body of knowledge on this field and further help manufacturing firms to explore options in increasing their workers’ job satisfaction level so that in the long term the firm can achieve its mission and vision.
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spelling usm.eprints-410792020-02-04T04:46:47Z http://eprints.usm.my/41079/ Relationship between Personality Types and Job Satisfaction among Employees in Malaysian Manufacturing Mohamed, Muhamed Shabir Bashir Asaari, Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan Desa, Nasina Mat HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management Employee job satisfaction is one of the important measurement aspects of an employee work life. Over the years, rich and mass knowledge in terms of academic research and management practice has been collected to understand further employee job satisfaction, especially for a firm, which work design is highly dependent on human workforce. Manufacturing industry is categorized under this group. Employee job satisfaction could be explained in terms of employee personality. As such, this research is design to understand the relationship between personality type and job satisfaction level of employees. For this paper, blue collar employees from manufacturing industry ware chosen. It is hoped that this paper could contribute to the body of knowledge on this field and further help manufacturing firms to explore options in increasing their workers’ job satisfaction level so that in the long term the firm can achieve its mission and vision. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2016 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/41079/1/2016_RJSS_msbm_mhaha_nmd_9%281%29_23-28.pdf Mohamed, Muhamed Shabir Bashir and Asaari, Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan and Desa, Nasina Mat (2016) Relationship between Personality Types and Job Satisfaction among Employees in Malaysian Manufacturing. In: Research Journal of Social Sciences. Universiti Sains Malaysia, pp. 23-28.
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title_full_unstemmed Relationship between Personality Types and Job Satisfaction among Employees in Malaysian Manufacturing
title_short Relationship between Personality Types and Job Satisfaction among Employees in Malaysian Manufacturing
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