TY  - GEN
AU  - Lokesh, L
AU  - Swati Patra 
AU  - Venkatesan, S
TI  - Job Satisf action among Police Personnel: A Socio-Demographic Study
SN  - 2319-8834
PY  - 2016///
KW  - Job Satisfaction, Police Personnel, Socio-demographic Variables
N2  - This cross sectional survey seeks to profile the degree, spread or extent of various facets of job satisfaction against identified personal socio-demographic variables on a purposive sample of 687police personnel hailing from 17 police stations in Mysore Urban District, Karnataka, India. The 36-item Likert Scale of Job Satisfaction Survey covering 9 facets revealed mean score of 129.85 (SD: 21.38;60.12%) which is interpreted as ‘ambivalence’ on the measuring instrument. This sense of uncertainty is reflected across socio-demographic variables except gender and number of dependents although within the same expressed bandwidth of ambiguity (p: <0.05). A facet-wise and item analysis show highest source for job satisfaction emerge from their nature of work, supervision and camaraderie with co-workers, whereas the source of their dissatisfaction stem from non-availability of rewards, low salaries, poor perks, lack of promotions or benefits and wantingwork conditions. The findings are presented and discussed in the light of a need to undertake job satisfaction research on a larger continual basis for updating and optimizing the available human resources in the police organization
UR  - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Srinivasan_Venkatesan3/publication/308199390_Job_Satisfaction_among_Police_Personnel_A_Socio-Demographic_Study/links/57dce82908aeea195936638a/Job-Satisfaction-among-Police-Personnel-A-Socio-Demographic-Study.pdf
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