Perceived organizational support and personality dimensions as predictors of job satisfaction

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Khan Abrar uz Zaman Khan (Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur )
Sonali Chandrakar (Institute of Teachers Education, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur )

The objective of the present empirical piece of research work is to examine the predicting effects of perceived organizational support and personality dimensions on job satisfaction. 61 school teachers were drawn from different school, by incidental-cum random sampling technique from different school at Raipur city to serve as participants in the present research work. Correlational research design was employed. Job satisfaction was measured by Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al., 1967). Perceived organizational support was measured by 8 item survey scale of perceived organizational support (Eisenberger, Hungtington, Hutchison, & Sowa, 1986). Personality dimensions were measured by EPQRS-H (Tiwari, Singh, & Singh, 2009). Predication effect was worked out through regression analysis. Results of study indicated that, perceived organizational support was positively linked with job satisfaction. Further, neuroticism was negatively and extraversion was positively associated with job satisfaction. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of the predicting effect of perceived organizational support and personality dimensions on job satisfaction.