An Alternative Evaluation Method for Job Satisfaction in Working Life: Mini-Longitudinal Occupational Work Satisfaction

Abstract

In the article, by evaluating job satisfaction under main headings of employee satisfaction, the emotional responses developed by employee towards her/his work are evaluated. Perspective of the article contains two innovative suggestions. First one of these is to gather information about the emotions developed by employees not only from a single company but from a sample representing an occupational group. In this way, it was aimed to reach information about work satisfaction relating with an occupation. Second one is to reach to a mini-longitudinal design by gathering data from the same group for two consecutive years from the field with reference to longitudinal studies. By evaluating data for two years together, it was aimed to enable the consistency of data collected from the group, through the years. Due to the sectoral importance, and demography of labor force, pharmaceutical representatives has been chosen. The study was carried out with the data collected for years 2015 (n=1076) and 2016 (n=1721). According to the results, in the sector generally satisfaction reduced in second year when compared with the first. While there are no significant differences in women and men as regards to occupational work satisfaction, as seniority increased, level of satisfaction also increased.