Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction of Employee in Public Institutions: In Case of Ginnir Town South Eastern Ethiopia

Employee job satisfaction is essential to face the dynamic and ever-increasing challenges of maintaining productivity of the organization by keeping their workforce constantly engaged and motivated. If the employees have negative and unpleasant feelings in the work, their attitudes to the work are dissatisfaction which in turn reduce the achievements of the employee. This paper outlines the employee’s job satisfaction level and factors that influence job satisfaction of Employee in public institutions of Ginnir town. The study employed a descriptive survey design where information was gathered mainly using self-administered questionnaires and document analysis. Respondents for the self-administered questionnaires were distributed for all public institutions employees. Hence, all 257 employees were selected. Data presentation was used different tools such as tables, bar charts and pie charts and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study showed that general job satisfaction levels of employees in the organizations are inclining towards negative in all criteria. In terms of main factors, the responses show that employees are dissatisfied with self-improvement, opportunities and “working conditions. Besides poor job satisfaction conditions the study also identifies factors that affect job satisfaction like salary level, internal facility, upgrade employees’ knowledge and skills, organizational recognition and awards, annual bonus payment, perceiving promotion and grade as fair, sponsorship to pursue academic and professional education programs and the like. Further the study identifies effects of job dissatisfaction in Ginnir town as turnover, absenteeism, tardiness, Accidents, Strikes, Grievances and Sabotage. The study recommended extensive and sustained improvement about the job satisfaction levels of the important factors. Keywords: Employees, Factors, Ginnir, Job Satisfaction DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-16-07 Publication date:June 30th 201