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An Investigation of National Trends in Job Satisfaction in Britain and Germany
Author(s) -
Green Francis,
Tsitsianis Nicholas
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2005.00362.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , job attitude , discretion , demographic economics , psychology , fall of man , task (project management) , gainful employment , work (physics) , social psychology , job performance , political science , management , economics , law , engineering , politics , mechanical engineering
Trends in job satisfaction in Britain and Germany are described, and potential explanations investigated. Contrary to what might be expected from popular commentary, changing job insecurity does not explain the fall in job satisfaction in either country. It is found that intensification of work effort and declining task discretion account for the fall in job satisfaction in Britain. In Germany there was a modest fall in the proportion of people working the number of hours that they wanted to. However, while working too many or too few hours is a significant source of job dissatisfaction, the changes were too small to account for the fall in job satisfaction.