The present study tries 1) to measure managerial women's job satisfaction level by determining major factor(s) concerning job satisfaction level: 2) to figure out the degree to which what specific factor(s) would contribute the satisfaction level: and...
The present study tries 1) to measure managerial women's job satisfaction level by determining major factor(s) concerning job satisfaction level: 2) to figure out the degree to which what specific factor(s) would contribute the satisfaction level: and 3) to concern the relationships between factors involved.
The data for this study are collected from some 172 managerial women who work in the Seoul Metropolitan Area or its vicinities. Sampled women workers share such characteristic as eight-year or more working lives with middle-ranking positions that are higher than those of assistant department heads. Mailed questionnaire is used for the collection of data from March,15 to April,15,1995.
Findings can be summarized as follows: first, managerial women workers' overall job satisfaction level was higher than those of the average women workers. However, they expressed job-related stresses mainly due to overburdens of task performances. In terms of major factors concerning job satisfaction level, workers' perceived job traits( such as comfort, discretion, pay level, personal relations, self-development, level of gender discrimination, and sexual harassment) had much to do with it(38%). It also turned out that personal characteristics such as leadership type, sociability, technology level as well as socio-demographic variables were positively related(14%). However, it is found out that objective job trait with relation to type of occupation-civil business workers, government officials, bankers--hierarchy, duration of employment, commuting hour, and proportion of women workers were not statistically significant in explaining women workers' job satisfaction level. Secondly, both objective job characteristics and worker personal characteristics do influence workers' perceived job characteristics.