Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant professor of management and accounting faculty of Allameh Tabataba'i University

2 Student of Msc of marketing

Abstract

The importance of the job satisfaction in aspects such performance, job commitment and so on is not secret to managers and many researches have been done in this field. Furthermore, one influencing dimension on the job satisfaction is personality that it’s various aspects has been studied. This study examines the relationships between the job satisfaction and three important aspects of personality: locus of control, need to achievement, and need to power. In a compressional-correlation study, 150 personnel of Sina and Iranmehr hospital were participated. Data were collected by job satisfaction Luthans, locus of control Spector, need to achievement, and need to power of Sokolowski questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, T tests and SPSS 16 software. The result of Pearson correlation showed significant relationships between: locus of control and job satisfaction, need to achievement and locus of control, need to power and locus of control. Also, the result of Anova test confirms these relationships. Furthermore, the result of T test didn’t show the significant difference between two hospitals from the standpoint of study variables scores

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