Job satisfaction and demographic variables - is there any link?

• Authors: Mallika Neelamegam
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the analysis of job satisfaction perceived by the Indian overseas bank employees in Chidambaram and Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. The employees working in Indian overseas bank were selected for the study. The study indicates that the job satisfaction perceived by the bank employees is medium and the demographic variables such as gender, age, educational qualification, experience, marital status, and income significantly influence the job satisfaction perception of employees.

Keywords

EN

demographic variables; job satisfaction; banking sector

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 108-111

Contributors

author

Mallika Neelamegam

• Faculty of Business Administration, Annamalai University, India

• Prague Development Center s.r.o., Bořivojova 1081 / 40, 130 00, Prague 3 - Žižkov, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2010.93