On Identifying the Motivating Factors of Job & Career Satisfaction of IT Professionals in Dhaka City of Bangladesh

Abstract

An effective organization will make sure that there is a spirit of cooperation and sense of commitment and satisfaction within the sphere of its influence. In today’s dynamic and ever changing environment the job & career satisfaction has emerged as the key fact for motivating employees towards the organizational goals and objectives. This issue has also been identified as one of the most important issues in today’s all sector. Information technology (IT) has in the recent times dominated all aspect of the business world, and, for this reason, today's business environment is more challenging and more dynamic than in previous years. In the development of information and communication technology (ICT), the fact of job & career satisfaction is becoming more complex day by day. To cope with the changes and upcoming challenges, organizations must identify the factors, which have profound impact on organizational performance as well as job satisfaction. This study is important because companies need to know the effects of job satisfaction to IT personnel and to the corporation as a whole. Unfortunately, very insufficient number of studies has been conducted in this area context of Bangladesh. This study is important because companies need to know the effects of job satisfaction to IT personnel and to the corporation as a whole. This study will help companies and company executives to understand that integrating the use of IT into their business in order to maximize profit and optimum performance depends on the level of satisfaction given to the IT professionals. This study focused on examining job satisfaction of Information Technology professionals in the Dhaka city of Bangladesh, paying particular attention to the most important factors of job satisfaction for IT workers. This paper determines the association between different characteristics of the respondents and the level of Job satisfaction among IT professional in Dhaka city. This paper also determines the key factors of Job satisfaction like salary, supervision, working environment, personal growth, training and promotion are the sources or determiners of satisfaction of IT professional in Dhaka city of Bangladesh which gives IT leaders and management the perception and vision to tackle job satisfaction issues in the IT environment.

Keywords: Job & Career Satisfaction, Information Technology, Logistic Regression, Bangladesh