Job factor importance for job satisfaction and dissatisfaction across different occupational levels.

3 occupational levels of employees, 155 first-line managers, 182 middle managers, and 181 professional employees, judged the importance of 18 job factors as contributing separately to job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction. Occupational level of the respondent did not significantly affect the judged order of importance of the factors for either job satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Similar content factors were judged most important while similar context factors were judged least important in contributing to both job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The relationship between the importance of the job factors in contributing to satisfying or dissatisfying situation is generally not significant. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)