Talk:Job satisfaction
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[edit] Deleted Advertisement
External link "Are You Satisfied?" was to a DeVry recruiting site. Link deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.121.43.63 (talk) 03:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Odd statement
Found this near the bottom of the page. "An important finding for employers is that job satisfaction has very low correlation to productivity on the job. A recent meta-analysis found an average correlation between satisfaction and productivity to be r=.17." What does this mean? Are we supposed to take this to mean that job satisfaction does not matter? It seems too centered around employers in the first place (r=.17.? HUH?) so I'm just going to delete it unless there are any objections. Kennard2 02:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Objection. I'm restoring this information. The text you deleted is important, as often it might be assumed that job satisfaction results in increased productivity. However, this results indicates that the correlation between job satisfaction and productivity is 0.17. This indicates that higher satisfaction IS ASSOCIATED with higher productivity, and empirically proven to do so. Note that this correlation is an association and does not imply that satisfaction causes increased productivity: Equally, increased productivity might cause increased satisfaction, and probably does in some circumstances. There are numerous ways that this information is practically useful, and should remain in the article (however, it should also be cited). Will replace the deleted content, as per that at 15:32, December 18, 2006 by User:141.140.249.1(oldid=95037252) Skittled 10:35, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- If it's important data, then it's just as important to make sure it's accurate and comprehensible to the general public... Most people don't know what an r-index is, myself included. That's why I deleted it--I couldn't make sense of it and wondered exactly which employees they were referring to.
- Right. What's an R-index, and why is it important? Otherwise, this whole thing will stay a big question mark.
- (I'm thinking this data just needs to be put into another form... Something self-explanatory like "1 out of 5 employees" or something.)
- If it's important data, then it's just as important to make sure it's accurate and comprehensible to the general public... Most people don't know what an r-index is, myself included. That's why I deleted it--I couldn't make sense of it and wondered exactly which employees they were referring to.
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- The other issue is that citation issue. It's a weasel word by definition--there's no info on who said this about employees, so it could be another Wiki author trying to dress up an opinion in a fact's clothes. How can you be sure that what they're saying is true?
Kennard2 23:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- The other issue is that citation issue. It's a weasel word by definition--there's no info on who said this about employees, so it could be another Wiki author trying to dress up an opinion in a fact's clothes. How can you be sure that what they're saying is true?
