JOB SATISFACTION ASSESSMENT AS AN INDICATOR OF THE POSITION OF EMPLOYEES IN COMPANIES IN THE BRCKO DISTRICT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINAStevan R. Stević, Vasilijana Mirković, Dejan Tešić |
Published 2018 |
ABSTRACT
Considering that the job satisfaction is a very important factor for the position of employees, the paper analyzes the job satisfaction in small and medium enterprises in the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The analysis was conducted on basis of the results of Scientific-professional research "The position of employees in small and medium enterprises in the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina", which was done in 2017 at the Faculty of Economics in Brcko. Job satisfaction was first observed as a categorical characteristic, with satisfaction assessment by means of five features, from very satisfied to very dissatisfied, and after that, the satisfaction assessment was presented in numerical values from one to five. Besides the general satisfaction assessment for employees in small and medium enterprises, the job satisfaction was considered also according to the most important sociodemographic characteristics of employees. In the paper, we have conducted the statistical analysis of the characteristics of the observed features, as well as the similarity analysis and difference of arithmetic means of the samples with the application of the t-test and variance analysis. In the analysis of the results for feature assessment "job satisfaction" we have used the chi-square test based on contingency table analysis, and for the feature "satisfaction assessment" we have used the t-test for comparison of the arithmetic means of independent samples, as well as the variance analysis. Regardless of the certain differences in assessment of the employee’s satisfaction in small and medium enterprises, the results point to the conclusion that the majority of employees are very satisfied with their jobs. Similar can be said for the job satisfaction assessment in relation to the certain sociodemographic characteristics of employees, with exception of certain differences depending on the satisfaction assessment which depends on the position of employees in the company.
Keywords: job satisfaction, satisfaction assessment methods, statistical analysis of the satisfaction assessment, sociodemographic characteristics of employees.