Long Hours, Hundreds of Emails and No Sleep: Does this sound

satisfying job

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our respected Sir Dr. Md. Abbas Ali

Khan who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful case assignment on the topic:

Long Hours, Hundreds of Emails and No Sleep: Does this sound satisfying job. Working on

this case assignment allowed us to do a lot of Research and we came to know so many new

things about different organization behaviors and different job positions & employee

satisfactions related with their jobs.

Secondly, we would also like to thank all of our team members for being active & supportive in

finalizing this assignment within the limited time frame.

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Case Summary

A pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job

experiences is defined as job satisfaction. "Long hours, Hundreds of E-mail and no sleep; does

this sound like a satisfying job?" this case represent four individual example where this four

individual heading the top level management in different organization, are engrossed with their

work responsibility and hectic schedule. This case is basically based on "Personal satisfaction is

the most important ingredient of success.

When people speak of employee attitudes, they usually mean job satisfaction. Job satisfaction or

employee satisfaction has been defined in many different ways. Some believe it is simply how

content an individual is with his or her job, in other words, whether or not they like the job or

individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. Satisfaction level of

the people working in corporate in high roles differ with respect to every person's pleasure in

performing the job. Some people are crestfallen as they have to minimize their vacation tenure

and return to company's work. Overall study help us to develop an understanding on how job

satisfaction is derived in the organization and to get fabricate with the organization citizenship

behavior, work motivation and job involvement. By the progression of learning some interesting

things from case, we tried to find answers of four questions which later help us to give a

preeminent explanation of their problem.

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Question- 1
Is the only certain individual are attracted to these types
job or is it the characteristics of the jobs themselves that
are satisfying?

This jobs are highly time consuming, often very stressful these sorts of jobs keep the employees

away from their families. Thus only certain individuals are attracted to these types of jobs. These

employee hold certain characteristics are like:

They are workaholic:

The term workaholic refers to various types of behavioral patterns, with each having its own

valuation. For instance, workaholics is sometimes used by people wishing to express their

devotion to one's career in positive terms. However, the term is more often used to refer to a

negative behavioral pattern that is popularly characterized by spending an excessive amount of

time on working, an inner compulsion to work hard, and a neglect of family and other social

relations. Researchers have found that in many cases, incessant work-related activity continues

even after impacting the subject's relationships and physical health. A workaholic is a person

who works compulsively. While the term generally implies that the person enjoys their work, it

can also alternately imply that they simply feel compelled to do it.

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Mostly they give higher priority to professionalism than their personal life:

Job satisfaction purely depends on individuals and their attitude towards work. Many people

hope to have a job that allows them to do some activities after work and have a life outside the

company. They tend to disapprove jobs that include the characteristics of long hours of working

and travelling which often disable them to spend time with their families. Based on this case, we

observe that most of the employee they love to do work. Paolo, Irene, Tony and David show that

they are motivated and satisfied despite the condition imposed by their work.

Employee find their job Challenging:

Interesting and challenging work is a top motivator in the workplace. The work itself is a

stronger motivator than the compensation for the work. The four individuals displayed high

level of job satisfaction, job involvement and organizational commitment that enable them to

accept the hardships as a positive challenge. These individual are positive people because

negative people are usually not satisfied with their job. Also these individual have positive

core self-evaluation that contribute to their being more satisfied with their jobs even under

extreme conditions.

The job offer higher status in the society:

The jobs seem extreme in nature with exceptional long and irregular hours of more than the

normal 40-hours work week, constant travels and serious lack of work-life balance. These

individual are willing to sacrifice family time for job sake. Usually such of people enjoy taking

such challenges in work places and they are conscious of titles and high status.

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Question-2
What Characteristics of these jobs might contribute to
increased levels of job satisfaction?

High profile people like to be dominant and control the situation rather being controlled by the

situation and always remain in high energy. Job satisfaction can be achieved by being

independent, remain positive, being significant, challenge oriented, skilled and being

responsible. From the given case study following characteristics have been analyzed,

John Bishop: During his vacation he spent most of the time in hotel room in California with his

Blackberry, while his wife Ellen chatted with other guests. He have more development scope,

high paid salary and being independent.

Irene: Irene Tse heads the government bond-trading division about 10 years. She says she hasnt

slept through the night in years and often wakes up several times to check the global market

status. She can count on the fingers of the hand the number of days in her career when she didnt

want to come to work.

Tiny kruz: Tony Kurz is a managing director at Capital Alliance Partners, and raises funds for

real estate investments. He often flies to exotic locations to woo prospective clients. He is

independent, serious and inspiring characteristics. High profile, high salary and travels to exotic

locations.

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David CLark: David Clark is the vice president of global marketing for MTV. His job often

travelling around and dont have much time to spend with his family. Find interesting (travelling

experience), promoting a channel and big salary.

Question-3
Given that the four individuals we just read about tend to be
satisfied with their jobs, how might this satisfaction relate to
their job performance, citizenship behavior and turn over?

Job Performance:

Good performance gives a job satisfaction where employees can serve better and convince their

customers and it eventually increases the loyalty and retention. Individuals show their best to

hard work and sincerity to their respective company.

Citizenship Behavior:

Being flexible in citizenship behavior provides a good job performance. John Bishop and Irene

Tse willingly provide job performance better than before and provide a positive exposure about

their work.

Tony Krutz and David Clark offer excellent job performance keep neutral views about the

citizenship behavior. They don't seems to be performing better, neither have they offered any

volunteering attitude or exposure to the rest.

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Turn Over:

This individuals give negative turn over for the job satisfaction. John Bishop and Irene have high

motivation about their work and serve beyond the expectation of an organization. Whereas Krutz

and Baker are satisfied due to the travelling opportunities they get in their job. Besides a tough

routine and tight schedule which make their personal life a big difficult they maintain the job

requirements and won't quit the job.

Question- 4
Recall David Clark's statement that There are plenty of
people who would love to have this job .They are knocking at
the door all the time. How might Clark's perceptions that he
has a job many others desire contribute to his job satisfaction?

David Clark is satisfied due to the high demand of his job which makes him keep his position.

Employee giving high performance worry an organization to leave, as in case of being

unsatisfied they might be the first to leave. Some individuals like the pressure of knowing that

others are in hunt of that job. It forms a basis of pride for them.

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