Influence of Age, Experience and Organizational Ethical Climate on Job Satisfaction: A Study among Public Sector Employees

This study examines the influence of age, work experience and organizational ethical climate on satisfaction working in the public sector. The objectives of the study are to: 1) examine the relationship between age and job satisfaction, 2) examine the relationship between work experience and job satisfaction, and 3) examine the relationship between organizational ethical climate and job satisfaction. Based on the literature reviews a model of relationship was proposed and developed to examine the relationships between the influence of age, experience and organizational ethical climate on job satisfaction. To examine the relationship of the variables, sample from 100 respondents from various department and division in Ministry of Human Resource, Putrajaya, Malaysia were used. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to measure the relationship. The correlation analysis suggested a positive and significant relationship among five of the organizational ethical climate types on job satisfaction. Rules and procedures climate, efficiency climate, friendship climate, team interest climate, and law and professional climate show a positive and significant relationship to job satisfaction. Meanwhile, age, experience, social responsibility climate, self-interest climate and personal morality climate have low relationship with job satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis result indicated that only two ethical climate types namely social responsibility climate and friendship climate were found to have significant relationship with job satisfaction. Based on the findings, further discussion, implication and limitation of the study are also discussed