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What is Job Satisfaction or Employee Satisfaction

Chapter 18
Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
It is a measure of workers' contentedness with their job, whether they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. Job satisfaction can be measured in cognitive (evaluative), affective (or emotional), and behavioral components. Researchers have also noted that job satisfaction measures vary in the extent to which they measure feelings about the job (affective job satisfaction) or cognitions about the job (cognitive job satisfaction)
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Case Study of Gender and Career Choices: Being and Becoming Medical People
Uğur Gündüz (Faculty of Communication, Istanbul University, Turkey) and Nilüfer Pembecioğlu (Faculty of Communication, Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 39
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch018
Abstract
This chapter aims to provide information about the situation of being female in the medical field and facing gender inequality. The medical education opportunities are put into the spotlight to see the possible factors affecting the choices and consequences. Apart from the traditional structure and the sociological analysis of the situation, the chapter also involves the results of two different types of research in the field. The data collection in general includes a close-ended questionnaire reaching 500 young females aiming to collect data in the field of education as well as face to face interviews with 30 medical field workers. The chapter is an attempt to prove that becoming an idealist person is the only solution left to the women to be and become a valued person in society.
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