Satisfied Employees

Employees are more loyal and productive when they are satisfied (Hunter & Tietyen, 1997). Employee satisfaction is a very important concept to review when it comes to an organization’s growth. When your employees are not happy with their place of employment they will not give their job their 110% effort nor will they be focused on going above and beyond what is needed for them to do in reaching the organization’s common goal. Many employers focus on the end result of what an employee is producing but the 21st Century era has made a shift in that focus and studies are being conducted to find what the factors in organizations that increase employee satisfaction are. Below you will find the summary of a study completed by Gebze Institute of High Technology Department of Business Administration that was conducted in the efforts to find out the effects of organizational culture and spiritual leadership on employee satisfaction in the metalworking manufacturing industry and the connection to IO Phycology.

Nature of Study

The main focus of this research is to solve the problem of finding what factors contribute the most to an employee’s satisfaction that will get an employee to work more willingly and put in the highest amount of effect in contributing to the company’s success. The hypothesis in this study was as follows:

“Hypothesis 1: There is significant correlation between organizational culture and employee satisfaction (in the framework of researched area).

Hypothesis 2: There is significant correlation between spiritual leadership and employee satisfaction (in the framework of researched area).

Hypothesis 3: The constructed model (as in figure 1) is significant (in the framework of researched area).

Hypothesis 4: The total explained variance of employee satisfaction, depending on organizational culture and spiritual leadership is greater than %50 (in the framework of researched area).” (Aydin & Ceylan, 2009)

The research methodologies used to...