Job Satisfaction as a concept...

Simply put, we define job satisfaction as a positive feeling about a job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. However, when we go to work our work cannot be successfully accomplished by doing our own work, somewhere and almost at most times it has others involved (unless we are creating and sending reports which no one is reading! ) thus, it requires a lot of interaction with co-workers, understanding of policies, complainces, performance standards, expectations and offcourse, the environment around.

To quantify it, we use the complex summation of a number of discrete job facets or the other approach to identify the key elements in a job and gather ratings.

Although job satisfaction appears to be a relevant concept across cultures, that doesn't mean there are no cultural differences in job satisfaction. Evidence suggests that employees in Western cultures have higher levels of job satisfaction than those in Eastern cultures. This result is not because they have better jobs but because Western cultures value positive emotions more and individual happiness.