Robert hoppock biography
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Job Satisfaction Theory
Everything you need to know about the theories of job satisfaction.
Robert Hoppock (1935), who presented the earliest definition on Job Satisfaction, describes the concept “as being any number of psychological, physiological, and environmental circumstances which leads a person to express satisfaction with their job.
Job Satisfaction is in regard to one’s feelings or state-of-mind regarding the nature of their work.
Job satisfaction can be influenced by a variety of factors, e.g., the quality of one’s relationship with their supervisor, the quality of the physical environment in which they work, degree of fulfillment in their work, etc.
There are three major theories of job satisfaction, viz.,-
(1) Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene theory, (2) Need-fulfillment theory and (3) Social reference-group theory. Under the need- fulfillment theory it is believed that a person is satisfied if he gets what he wants and the more he wan