Find out if you are Happy in your Current Career by using one of the Many Job Satisfaction Methods.

1. Smile…You’re At
Work!
Job Satisfaction with the Job Characteristics Model

2. What is the JCM?
Meaningfulness of
the Work
Task
Significance
Task
Identity
Skill
Variety
Autonomy Feedback
High Motivation,
High-quality
Performance,
High job
Satisfaction, Low
Absenteeism, and
Low Turnover
Skill Variety - The range of tasks performed
Task Identity - The ability to complete the whole job from start to finish
Task Significance - The impact of the job on others
The extent of discretion and
freedom an employee has over
his or her tasks
The extent to which the job provides
the employee with information
about the effectiveness of his or her
performance

3. Meaning…
• You are Happier in your job when…..
• You have multiple types of tasks that need your attention
• You are the Main/Only person on the Task (Seeing it for start to finish)
• The Completed Task makes a difference in the workplace
• You are not Micro-Manage in the workplace
• You know the Results of your job performance on the Completed Task

4. A Way to Measure your
Happiness!
• Motivational Potential Score (MPS)
• An index of how likely a job is to affect an employee's attitudes and behaviors.
MPS Skill Variety Task Identity Task Significance Autonomy Feedback
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Jobs that are high in motivating potential must be also high on at least one of the three factors that
lead to experienced meaningfulness, and also must be high on both Autonomy and Feedback.

5. Some of the Most Satisfying Jobs!

6. Ask Yourself…
• Do I work on the same projects all the time?
• Is my work becoming mundane?
• Do I get to see the affect my project has on the workplace?
• Does my project/performance make a difference?
• Do I have freedom in the workplace?
• Do I get real feedback from management that can help me become better?

7. The Answer…
High Job
Satisfaction
Low Job
Satisfaction
NO
YES

8. How to Change your JS!
• Ask for more Responsibility in the Workplace
• Ask for more Variety in Tasks
• Prove that you do not need to be Micro-Managed
• Ask for Good and Bad feedback from managers
• Change Jobs

9. Contact…
@Astra_Careers
Facebook/AstraSolutions
LinkedIn/KellyLoudermilk

10. Credits…
• http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_satisfaction#Motivating_Potential_Sc
ore
• http://www.livescience.com/1431-survey-reveals-satisfying-jobs.html