Status Influence and Job Satisfaction of Organizational Members

This paper gives an insight into the overall job satisfaction of employees as well as satisfaction with respect to the facets of job viz. pay, promotion, supervision, fringe benefits, contingent rewards, operating conditions, coworkers, nature of work, and communication. The purpose of the study was to know employees attitudes towards different job facets and to examine whether job satisfaction increases with rank or not?. The data is primary in nature based on a field survey conducted on the permanent employees of three Electric Corporation viz. MeECL, NEEPCO, and PowerGrid located in the North Eastern State of India, Meghalaya, Shillong. A sample of 337 employees was considered and data were collected divided into two strata of 129 executives and 208 non-executives. For the purpose of measurement of job satisfaction, job satisfaction survey instrument by specter (1985) was considered. The finding of the study revealed that job satisfaction increases with rank and the attitudes of the two strata towards different facets were also revealed.