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Study of gender differences in perceived employer’s obligations, it’s fulfillment and relationship with job satisfaction

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Pages: 571-578
Shivani Datta and Tanya Dutta (Department of Psychology, KNC, University of Delhi, Delhi)

The purpose of the current study is to explore gender differences in employee’s perception of employer’s obligation’s, its fulfillment and relationship with job satisfaction. To study the same a sample of 60 participants was selected. For inclusion in the study, participants were required to be full-time employees of any company from the IT industry. The employer obligations scale was administered to measure employee’s perception of their employer’s obligation. A global measure of employer fulfillment was used to measure the employee’s perception of their employer’s obligation fulfillment by Rousseau and Tijoriwala (1999). To assess the relationship between fulfillment and overall satisfaction a global measure of Satisfaction was used where a five-item response set using smiley faces was employed (as a cultural and gender-neutral variation on the GM-Faces Scale, Kunin, 1955). Statistical analysis was done using independent t- test and correlation coefficient; also the responses of participants to semi structure interview schedule were content analyzed for major themes. The results obtained suggest that there exist no gender differences in the employee’s perception of their employer obligation. However significant gender differences were obtained in the employer obligation fulfillment. While a strong correlation was found between employers obligation fulfillment and overall job satisfaction for both male and female employees.

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Pages: 571-578
Shivani Datta and Tanya Dutta (Department of Psychology, KNC, University of Delhi, Delhi)