Job Satisfaction – An Illusion or a Real Possibility? Released by: Sarah Hightower Hill Web Site: http://www.job-satisfaction.net Only 27 percent of respondents to a recent poll considered their jobs to be satisfying Email: info@chandlerhill.com Keywords: job, job satisfaction, career satisfaction, employers, chandler hill, chandler hill partners Update Date: 4/25/2005 12:45:20 PM Hits: 479 Descrption:  A recent Chandler Hill Partners poll asking job seekers to comment on the level of satisfaction with their current job indicated that only 27 percent of respondents considered their jobs to be satisfying. A 27 percent satisfaction rate is an alarmingly low number considering that job satisfaction impacts productivity levels, quality of interaction in the corporate culture and society in general as workers return to their private lives with the stress and frustrations accumulated during the workday. The financial impact brought about by a less than empowered workforce may be so large and so obscure it defies calculation. Additionally, it may account in part for some of the major issues currently effecting our economic growth, such as outsourcing or the hiring of undocumented workers. Based on these findings and the trickle-down nature of its impact, job satisfaction may very well be one of the most serious issues facing our nation today. What does it take to be satisfied in one’s job? Money, yes certainly, as a society we are still validated somewhat by the salaries we command individually, but another poll taken by Chandler Hill Partners indicates that money isn’t the only ingredient in job satisfaction. Recognition and reward are the goals when human resource departments sit down to design Employee Motivation Programs, but our clients tell us other things play even larger roles; issues such as personal challenge, personal reputation, the company’s image in the community and its impact to humanitarian and environmental concerns. It’s a pretty well known fact that Americans work hard, more often than not putting in longer hours than our counterparts in other countries. While we have designed and marketed products and business systems that have revolutionized the world’s economy and have achieved an unparalleled standard of living, we take fewer days off, and our vacations usually do not equal the standard expected vacation holiday of European workers. So what’s the problem? Why are 73 percent of us dissatisfied with what we are doing professionally? ...continued at www.job-satisfaction.net