Arbeitszufriedenheit als soziales Problemlösen

Jochims Thorsten ()
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Jochims Thorsten: Institut für Management und Organisation (IMO), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, 21335Lüneburg, Deutschland

Arbeit, 2019, vol. 28, issue 2, 177-204

Abstract: Job satisfaction is probably the most intensively researched phenomenon in the Social Sciences. Astonishingly, however, scientific studies repeatedly yield inconsistent findings. Current studies often lack a clear theoretical basis and a definition of what job satisfaction should be understood to mean. In the present paper, job satisfaction is defined as a construct that arises in the process of solving social problems by building up resources. In this context, the avoidance of dissatisfaction as a behavior-controlling force moves into the foreground. The build-up of resources in day-to-day work is described with the help of the Conservation of Resources Theory, and is empirically examined in detail in a subsequent step. As a central outcome, it can be established that problem-solving during social interaction in the organization has a decisive effect on the build-up of resources and thus on increasing job satisfaction.

Keywords: job satisfaction; resources; problem solving; Arbeitszufriedenheit; Ressourcen; Problemlösen; job satisfaction; resources; problem solving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2019-0011

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