Week 4 Post

This week I chose an article that actually did studies relating to my topic. Since I am trying to find out the necessary factors of employee satisfaction, it was extremely beneficial for me to find a peer reviewed article that focused on employment and job satisfaction conditions. I was able to learn that there is a direct correlation between the number of years an employee has been with the company and their level of job satisfaction. Along with that, this study had also proven by pulling a group of 123 employees from Prefecture of Crete that those who had both more work experience as a whole and a greater number of years within the company held the highest level of satisfaction. One may think that this is common knowledge, but my standpoint had been to assume that the longer you were with a company the more comfortable you became. I didn't necessarily believe that your satisfaction with the company grew or that the company took further steps to ensure that you were happy.


I felt that being completely specific when looking for a peer reviewed journal it was easiest to find an outcome. I not only included my key subject words but I chose English and even clarified I only wanted PDF files. By using three key words, and clarifying that all three words must be included, I was able to minimize by options (Still a huge number) to ones that provided great information on my topic. I think that validating the authority of the article, though a step I took in prior weeks, was the most important factor in finding the perfect article. By both following up on the authors/researchers and the publisher of the article I was able to my trust in the information being given to me.


The topic I chose has allowed me an easier research process, as there is an abundance of books, articles, web results, etc. that have information to assist me in my research. The biggest struggle of my process was ensuring that the results I found focused on businesses and not world wide organizations. My solution to this was a change of one of my key words and clicking on 'English' as the language and 'Wala!' the problem was fixed.


I hope to find out that there are common factors that the successful companies use to keep there employees happy. I would also like to find out why those companies lacking these steps in their employee satisfaction process choose to focus on alternate points even when it may not be beneficial to the success of their company.

Amalia, Myronaki, and Antonakas Nikolaos. "Previous Employment and Job Satisfaction Conditions: The Case of Regional Administration." AIP Conference Proceedings 1148.1 (2009): 927-931. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 May 2016. DOI Number: 10.1063/1.3225471