| Abstract | The objectives of this research are to (1) Identify the factors which affect the job
satisfaction level of employees in the company, (2) Assess the job satisfaction level of
employees in the company, and (3) Check whether there are any differences in term of the
job satisfaction level of employees by individual characteristics (gender, age, educational
level, working position, length of service in the company, monthly average income) or not.
The research model contains eight components: job characteristics, training and promotion,
leadership, colleague, salary, welfare, job performance appraisal, working conditions; and
eight hypotheses corresponding to each component are developed on the basis of theory on
the job satisfaction of employees. The qualitative research is carried out to correct and
complete observation of variables for the scales. The quantitative research is carried out
with 346 employees who are working in the company by the detail questionnaire aiming at
assessing the scales and the research model. The statistical analysis sofware SPSS 16.0 for
Windows is used to analyze data.
The results show that the component of workload is not suitable for this research. The
results of factor analysis present the model of the job satisfaction of employees in
Vinacomin - Dong Trieu Thermal Power Company, which is the combination of the
components: “Salary and welfare”, “Leadership”, “Training and promotion”, “Job
performance”, “Colleague”, Role of work”, “Working conditions and facilites”.
In reality, the research makes the company’s leaders aware of the job satisfaction level of
employees in the company, as well as the factors which affect to the job satisfaction level.
Then, they can give the essential and suitable solutions to improve the job satisfaction level
of employees. The research results also recommend some further research directions to
complete the theories on assessing the job satisfaction of employees, which are applied for
enterpries in Vietnam in general. |