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

Abstract: 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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 Shirvani, M., Mohammadi, A., Iravani, M., Pour, S., Arabmomeni, A., Mirhaj, S & Fakhramini, A. (2013). Investigating different factors influencing job satisfaction: A case study of cement industry.Management Science Letters , 3(10), 2619-2624.

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