Recent Survey Regarding Job Satisfaction

Recent Survey Regarding Job Satisfaction

To:

The head of the American Intellectual Union:

This is a report that highlights main findings from a recent survey regarding job satisfaction with reference to gender, age, position and departments, the paper discusses the distribution of gender, tenure with company and departments. The paper also discusses probabilities with reference to the data.

1. Gender:

A total of 25 participants were considered in the sample, 11 were male and 14 were female meaning that the data set continued 44% male respondents and 56% female respondents. Further analysis of the data showed that that 20% male and 20% female had worked with the company for 2 to 5 years, 16% male and 8% female had worked with the company for over 5 years, finally 28% female and 8% male had worked with the company for less than 2 years. The table below summarises the results

tenure with company

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male

female

Less than 2 years

8.00%

28.00%

2 to 5 years

20.00%

20.00%

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Over 5 Years

16.00%

8.00%

These results show that there are more male employees who had worked with the company for over 5 years while only 8% of male employees compared to 28% female had worked with the company for less than 2 years. Results therefore show that there has been an increase in the number of female employees in the company.

2. Departments:

Participants worked in three different departments including the human resource department, information technology and administration department, 20% of the participants worked in the human resource department, and 24% worked in the information technology department while 56% worked in the administration department. This show that majority of the participants worked in the administration department.

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department

Human Resources

5

20%

Information Technology

6

24%

Administration

14

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56%

Further analysis on the male and female in each department showed that there are more female employees than in the human resource department, the table below summarises the results:

department

male

female

Human Resources

4%

16%

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Information Technology

12%

12%

Administration

28%

28%

The probability that an individual is female in the human resource department is 16% while the probability that an individual is male in the human resource department is 4%. Therefore the number of male and female participants in each department is equal apart from the human department where there are more female workers.

3. Job satisfaction:

Job satisfaction mean values showed that the overall mean satisfaction value was the highest with extrinsic having the lowest mean value, the table below summarises the mean values:

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mean

overall

5.208

intrinsic

5.156

extrinsic

4.856

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With reference to gender Intrinsic sample mean for participant was 4.5636 for male and 5.6214 for female participants, extrinsic mean value was 5.0455 for male and 4.7071 for female participants, and overall mean value was 5.2909 for male and 5.1429 for female participants. The table below summarises the results:

mean values

male

female

intrinsic

4.5636

5.6214

extrinsic

5.0455

4.7071

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overall

5.2909

5.1429

This shows that male overall and extrinsic mean values were greater than that of female participants.

From this discussion it is evident that overall mean value is greater than the other forms of satisfaction, further analysis of overall values depict the following frequency table:

overall

overall

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%

overall

frequency

cumulative

cumulative

3.1-3.2

1

1

4%

3.3-3.4

0

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1

4%

3.5-3.6

3

4

16%

3.7-3.8

1

5

20%

3.9-4.0

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0

5

20%

4.1-4.2

0

5

20%

4.3-4.4

1

6

24%

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4.5-4.6

0

6

24%

4.7-4.8

0

6

24%

4.9-5

0

6

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24%

5.1-5.2

4

10

40%

5.3-5.4

3

13

52%

5.5-5.6

3

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16

64%

5.7-5.8

3

19

76%

5.9-6

2

21

84%

6.1-6.2

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1

22

88%

6.3-6.4

1

23

92%

6.5-6.6

0

23

92%

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6.7-6.8

1

24

96%

6.9-7

1

25

100%

From the above table the probability that the overall value is equal or less than 5.2 is 0.4, also the probability that the overall value is equal or less than 3.6 is 0.16.

4. Age:

With reference to age 40% of the participants were aged between 16 and 21, this comprised of

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10 participants whereby 4 were male and 6 were female. 28% were aged between 22 and 49 years and this comprised of 7 participants whereby 4 were male and 3 were female participants. Finally 32% were aged 50 and 65 years and this comprised of 3 male and 5 male participants. The table below shows the results

age

male

female

total

%

16-21

4

6

10

40%

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22-49

4

3

7

28%

50-65

3

5

8

32%

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The table results show that there were more participants aged between 16-21 years than any other age group, also that there were more female participants aged 16 to 21 years and 50 to 65 years than male participants.

The percentage frequency also shows that the probability that an individual will be 16 and 21 years is 0.4, also that the probability that an individual will be 22 and 49 years is 0.28 and the probability that an individual will be 50 to 65 years is 0.32.

5. Position:

The position of the participants also influence job satisfaction, position will influence the intrinsic value of satisfaction, 17 participants were hourly employees while only 8 were salaried employees, the table below summarises the frequency distribution of intrinsic values in each position:

position

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intrinsic

hourly

salaried

frequency

cumulative

frequency

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cumulative

3.1-3.2

0

0

1

1

3.3-3.4

0

0

1

2

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3.5-3.6

0

0

0

2

3.7-3.8

1

1

0

2

3.9-4.0

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0

1

0

2

4.1-4.2

1

2

1

3

4.3-4.4

1

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3

0

3

4.5-4.6

3

6

1

4

4.7-4.8

1

7

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0

4

4.9-5

0

7

0

4

5.1-5.2

2

9

0

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4

5.3-5.4

1

10

0

4

5.5-5.6

1

11

0

4

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5.7-5.8

1

12

1

5

5.9-6

0

12

0

5

6.1-6.2

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3

15

1

6

6.3-6.4

1

16

1

7

6.5-6.6

1

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17

1

8

From the above table only 4 salaried participants had intrinsic value greater or equal to 5, compared to 10 hourly participants whose intrinsic value was greater than 5, this means that the probability that an individuals will be salaried and have an intrinsic value greater or equal to five is 0.16 while the probability that an individual will be an hourly employee and have an intrinsic value greater than 5 is 40%. This shows that hourly employees are more satisfied with their job than salaried employees.

Main findings:

– There are more female employees in the human resource department

– There are more female employees whose tenure with the company is les than two years

– 56% of the employees are in the administration department

– Hourly employees have higher intrinsic values of satisfaction than salaried employees

– 40 % of the participants are aged 16 and 21 years and 28% are aged 22 and 49

– Male participants have a higher overall and extrinsic mean values than female participants.

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References:

Bluman, G. (2002). Elementary statistics. New  York: McGraw-Hill publishers

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