PACHURA, Aneta, Krystyna KMIOTEK, Małgorzata SMOLAREK, Joanna DZIEŃDZIORA, Agnieszka RZEPKA and Jarmila DUHÁČEK ŠEBESTOVÁ. WORK SATISFACTION IN SMES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELECTED COUNTRIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2023, vol. 30, No 4, p. 255-270. ISSN 2300-5327. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.7862/rz.2023.hss.78.
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Original name WORK SATISFACTION IN SMES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELECTED COUNTRIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Authors PACHURA, Aneta (616 Poland, guarantor), Krystyna KMIOTEK (616 Poland), Małgorzata SMOLAREK (616 Poland), Joanna DZIEŃDZIORA (616 Poland), Agnieszka RZEPKA (616 Poland) and Jarmila DUHÁČEK ŠEBESTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023, 2300-5327.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50204 Business and management
Country of publisher Poland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19520/23:A0000438
Organization unit School of Business Administration in Karvina
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.7862/rz.2023.hss.78
Keywords (in Czech) spokojenost; pracovní místo; MSP; střední Evropa; faktory spokojenosti v práci
Keywords in English job satisfaction; workplace; job satisfaction factors; SME; CEE
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Ing. Jarmila Duháček Šebestová, Ph.D., učo 19986. Changed: 1/4/2024 10:26.
Abstract
This article is based on empirical research conducted in SMEs in several countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Poland. The basis for empirical recognition was the assumption that it is possible to develop a positive attitude among employees towards work. The research problem concerned the search for the characteristics of the organizational environments of SMEs in the context of achieving job satisfaction. The research question was,“How and with what mechanisms can the positive attitudes of employees towards their work be strengthened?” To measure employees’ attitudes toward work, quantitative research was carried out using a questionnaire on a sample of 590 respondents. The key dimensions of satisfaction in the workplace were analyzed; these included the quality of management processes, social communication, interpersonal relations, remuneration or self-realization, and fulfillment of competence potential. Summing up the results of the empirical research, it is worth emphasizing that SME employees noticed many different factors affecting, to a greater or lesser extent, their perceptions of professional satisfaction. Among these, they most often mentioned detailed elements of the general context of achieving satisfaction in relation to, for example, individual abilities and skills, interpersonal relationships, communication processes, and reward and motivation systems.
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