Now a days job satisfaction play a vital role on employee retention and attrition. Due to the inconvenient in workplace many employees are switchover into one company to other company, it leads to huge loss for the particular organization. Till the date many organizations introduce and moderate activities to retain their employees in same organization. The present study is to find out the level of employee job satisfaction in Safeway Dredging Enterprises. For this research work researcher adopt convenient sampling method to collect the data. A total of 100 employees were administered job satisfaction scales. Chi – square analysis were used for data analysis. The chi – square analysis test for independence at 0.05 level of significance shows that there is significantly significant association between experience wise classifications with their overall job satisfaction in the organization. On the basis of these findings, found that the huge experienced employees from the organization was getting satisfaction on their job.

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A Study on Job Satisfaction with special reference to Safeway
Dredging Enterprises at Nagapattinam
P. Thiyakesh1
, Dr. Sheeba Julius2
ABSTRACT: Now a days job satisfaction play a vital role on employee retention and attrition.
Due to the inconvenient in workplace many employees are switchover into one company to
other company, it leads to huge loss for the particular organization. Till the date many
organizations introduce and moderate activities to retain their employees in same
organization. The present study is to find out the level of employee job satisfaction in Safeway
Dredging Enterprises. For this research work researcher adopt convenient sampling method
to collect the data. A total of 100 employees were administered job satisfaction scales. Chi –
square analysis were used for data analysis. The chi – square analysis test for independence
at 0.05 level of significance shows that there is significantly significant association between
experience wise classifications with their overall job satisfaction in the organization. On the
basis of these findings, found that the huge experienced employees from the organization was
getting satisfaction on their job.
KEYWORD: Job satisfaction, employee engagement, work life balance, statutory welfare measures, employee
turnover, role perception.
In the present day of severe competition, an organization, if it wants to survive and
perform well has to have much strength. The most important strength is “organizational
strengths”. An organization may be strong only if the people in the organization are good. To
put it shortly “it is the people who form the real strength of the organization”. Every
experienced employee is worth its weight in gold. Organization that hopes to prosper well in
the future cannot neglect the needs of employees.
Employee’s satisfaction or job satisfaction plays an important role in deciding the
organization strength. In this context another important term is labour turnover. High rate of
labour turnover means more number of “dissatisfied employees” and it does not augur well
for the organizational future.
Hoppock (1935) job satisfaction is a combination of psychological, physiological and
environmental factors that makes a person to admit, “I am happy at my job”. It has also
defined as the ‘end state of feeling’. This definition points out the factor of job satisfaction
but does not indicate the nature of job satisfaction.
According to the study conducted by Friedlander and Margulies (1969), it was
discovered that management & friendly staff relationships contribute to the level of job
satisfaction. However, this result contradicts with view of Herzberg (1966) who supported the
view that supervision is irrelevant to the level of job satisfaction.
Davis et al., (1985) Job satisfaction represents a combination of positive or negative
feelings that workers have towards their work. Meanwhile, when a worker employed in a
business organization, brings with it the needs, desires and experiences which determinates
expectations that he has dismissed. Job satisfaction represents the extent to which
1
Ph.D., Research Scholar, Bharatiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India – 641 046.
2
Assistant Professor & Research Supervisor, Department of Commerce, A.D.M. College for Women,
Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, South India – 611 001.

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expectations are and match the real awards. Job satisfaction is closely linked to that
individual's behaviour in the work place.
Spector (1997) refers to job satisfaction in terms of how people feel about their jobs
and different aspects of their jobs. Ellickson and Logsdon (2002) support this view by
defining job satisfaction as the extent to which employees like their work. Schermerhorn
(1993) defines job satisfaction as an affective or emotional response towards various aspects
of an employee’s work. C.R.Reilly(1991) defines job satisfaction as the feeling that a worker
has about his job or a general attitude towards work or a job and it is influenced by the
perception of one’s job.
1.1 Scope of the study:
The relationship satisfaction to productivity is not necessarily straight forward and can be
influenced by a number of other works related constructs and the motion that “a happy
worker is a productive worker”. Hence the study for the job satisfaction is necessary to access
the views and perception of employees in order to increase their efficiency and productivity.
1.2 Objectives of the study:
 To find out the satisfaction level regarding the compensation plans, transparency and
leadership.
 To analyze the employee loyalty toward the organization and to understand the
commitment of management towards employees, in terms of trust empowerment etc.
1.3 Testing hypotheses:
 There is no significantly significant association between experience wise
classifications with their overall job satisfaction in the organization.
Methods
2.1 Research design:
The research design is descriptive type. A research is the arrangement of the
conditions for the collections and analysis of the data in a manner that aims to combine
relevance to the research purpose with economy in procedure. In fact, the research is design
is the conceptual structure within which research is conducted; it constitutes the blue print of
the collection, measurement and analysis of the data. As search the design includes an outline
of what the researcher will do from writing the hypothesis and its operational implication to
the final analysis of data.
2.2 Procedure for the study:
Convenient sampling technique was used for selecting the sample respondents from
the organization. Population in the organization is 196, researcher choose 100 employees for
this study. Both the primary and secondary data have been collected for the research work.
Chi – square analysis is used to analyze the sample despondence opinion towards their job
satisfaction in Safeway Dredging Enterprises, Nagapattinam.

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Results
From the frequency table shows that the experience wise classifications with their
overall job satisfaction in the organization (see table 1), how often the experience wise
classification together with each of the five values of respondents overall job satisfaction. Out
of 100 respondents, 23.0 per cent of the respondents have below 1 year experience, 48.0 per
cent of the respondents have 1 to 2 years of experience, 15.0 per cent of the respondents have
3 to 4 years of experience, 2.0 per cent of the respondents have 5 to 6 years of experience and
12.0 per cent of the respondents have more than 6 years of experience.
Out of 23 per cent of the respondents those who have below 1 year experience, 4.0 per
cent of the respondents are strongly agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the organization,
6.0 per cent of the respondents are agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the organization,
9.0 per cent of the respondents are neutral with overall job satisfaction in the organization,
2.0 per cent of the respondents are disagreeing with overall job satisfaction in the
organization and 2.0 per cent of the respondents are strongly disagreeing with overall job
satisfaction in the organization.
Out of 48.0 per cent of the respondents those who have 1 to 2 years of experience, 8.0
per cent of the respondents are strongly agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the
organization, 7.0 per cent of the respondents are agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the
organization, 15.0 per cent of the respondents are neutral with overall job satisfaction in the
organization, 8.0 per cent of the respondents are disagreeing with overall job satisfaction in
the organization and 10.0 per cent of the respondents are strongly disagreeing with overall
job satisfaction in the organization.
Out of 15.0 per cent of the respondents those who have 3 to 4 years of experience, 3.0
per cent of the respondents are strongly agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the
organization, 1.0 per cent of the respondents are agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the
organization, 6.0 per cent of the respondents are neutral with overall job satisfaction in the
organization, 1.0 per cent of the respondents are disagreeing with overall job satisfaction in
the organization and 4.0 per cent of the respondents are strongly disagreeing with overall job
satisfaction in the organization.
Out of 2.0 per cent of the respondents those who have 5 to 6 years of experience, 1.0
per cent of the respondents are agreeing with overall job satisfaction in the organization and
1.0 per cent of the respondents are disagreeing with overall job satisfaction in the
organization.
Out of 12.0 per cent of the respondents those who have more than 6 years of
experience, 3.0 per cent of the respondents are strongly agreeing with overall job satisfaction
in the organization, 1.0 per cent of the respondents are agreeing with overall job satisfaction
in the organization, 3.0 per cent of the respondents are neutral with overall job satisfaction in
the organization and 5.0 per cent of the respondents are disagreeing with overall job
satisfaction in the organization.
Test of independence table (see table 2) shows the results of hypothesis test run to
determine whether or not to reject the idea that the respondents overall job satisfaction with
their experience classifications are independent. Since the Pearson Chi – Square value is
18.648 and the p – value is 0.287 (which is greater than or equal to 0.05), it cannot reject the

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hypothesis that the rows and columns are independent at 5 per cent level of significant.
Therefore, the observed values of respondents experience for a particular case may be bear no
statistically significant association to its value for their overall job satisfaction.
Discussion
Aim of the study is to find out the level of employee’s job satisfaction in Safeway
Dredging Enterprises, Nagapattinam. So, we conducted our study in which 100 employees in
the organization.
The result of chi – square analysis test for independence shows that the huge
experienced employees are neutral with their overall job satisfaction, then the second
maximum experienced employees are says that they are strongly agreeing with their overall
job satisfaction in the organization, rest of experience employees were agreeing, disagreeing
and strongly disagreeing with their overall job satisfaction in the organization.
It was concluded that, the study of the level of job satisfaction of employees
conducted in the firm will surely help the organization to identify the improvement among
the employees after conducting the training program and to know the employee views upon
the nature of the job. Apart from all the above this will benefit the organization to know about
the employees attitudes towards the needs and importance of training and development
programs and thereby identify the methods as to how to improve the means of increasing the
employees skills.
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Table 1:
Frequency table for the respondents experience wise classifications with their overall job
satisfaction in the organization
Overall job satisfaction
Total
Strongly
Agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
Experience
Below 1 year
4 6 9 2 2 23
4.0% 6.0% 9.0% 2.0% 2.0% 23.0%
1 to 2 year
8 7 15 8 10 48
8.0% 7.0% 15.0% 8.0% 10.0% 48.0%
3 to 4 year
3 1 6 1 4 15
3.0% 1.0% 6.0% 1.0% 4.0% 15.0%
5 to 6 year
0 1 0 1 0 2
0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 2.0%
Above 6 year
3 1 3 5 0 12
3.0% 1.0% 3.0% 5.0% 0.0% 12.0%
Total 18 16 33 17 16 100
Table 2
Result of tests of independence for the respondents experience wise classifications with their
overall job satisfaction in the organization
Test Statistics df P-Value
Pearson Chi-Square 18.648 16 0.287