Job Satisfaction and the Relationship to Ethnicity

The Job Descriptive Index, including the Job in General scale, was used to survey employees in Minnesota from five ethnoracial groups: African American, American Indian, Asian, Hispanic/Latino and White to determine if ethnicity impacts the score for the five facets (pay, promotion, co-workers, supervisors, and the work on the present job) and the job in general survey. Survey results were also analyzed by age, gender, household income and organization type. A t-test was used to analyze the difference of mean results between ethnoracial groups using Whites as the control group