EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION AND ITS ANTECEDENTS

Employee job satisfaction is a very crucial area formanager in this day and age as far as managing their employees is concerned. Employee job satisfaction is a term to determine whether employees are happy and fulfilling their needs and aspirations in the organization. Essentially employee satisfaction is a gauge of the degree of worker‘s happiness with their job and working environment.Many measures establish that employee satisfaction is necessary for employee motivation, higher performance andbetter employee self-esteem in the organization. In this paper different variables accountable for employee job satisfaction has been identified and an attempt has been made to shed some light on the differences in variables among the studies. This study reveals that commonly acknowledged antecedents to build employee job satisfaction are salary, relationship with coworkers, relationship with supervisor, training and development, working environment, motivation, appreciation etc. In the end, the conceptual framework of this research is also presented.