Determinants influencing employee satisfaction: A case of government and project type organization

The relationship of employer supervisory and monitoring style,motivation level provided to the employees and other determinants in context to employee's satisfaction regarding their job was studied during 2007-09 in government organization and undp biosaline-ii project of punjab,pakistan. a total of 300 employees were selected randomly through multiphase sampling from the govt. organization (agriculture house,punjab,lahore),while 120 project employees of undp biosaline-ii were interviewed,thus making a total sample size of 420. the data was collected through personal interviews following validated interview schedule. the employees satisfaction level (esl) was measured on 4 points scale. on measuring scale,mean value of 1 represents highly satisfied,2 moderately satisfied,3 represents least satisfied and 4 accounts for dissatisfied from the job. the results from present investigation revealed that only 43.1 percent employees were satisfied (11.9 percent highly satisfied,14.3 percent moderately,16.9 percent least satisfied) with the job. out of about 57 percent dissatisfied employees,supervisory style accounted 21 percent employees to be dissatisfied. the employees were dissatisfied due to low salary (14 percent),contractual job nature (10 percent),poor capacity building and training (8 percent) and poor working environment (4 percent). therefore,the competent authorities must keep consideration on salary structure,job nature,training need assessment and working environment prior to the recruitment in concerned department.