An Empirical Assessment on Job Satisfaction of Public Knowledge Employees in Bangladesh

Abstract

Globalization, reorganization of public sectors and sustainable development of human resource management propel researchers and practitioners to exert considerable attention on employees’ job satisfaction for sustainable and socially responsible organizational development. But little could be known about the satisfaction of knowledge employees, especially in the public sectors. This paper deals with the assessment of the level of job satisfaction and job satisfaction factors of public knowledge employees in Bangladesh. The flow and essence of the paper have been drawn from the empirical analysis of the data of 64 respondents from 7 agricultural and livestock research institution under the Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Agriculture, and Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and 4 related universities in Bangladesh. The relationships among variables were assessed by factor analysis, reliability, descriptive statistics, correlations, regression and ANOVA. The major finding is that the job satisfaction of public knowledge employees is significantly dependent upon work motivation and fair treatment.

Keywords: Job satisfaction, knowledge employees, public sectors