THE EFFECTS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON JOB SATISFACTION
Keywords:
professional development, career opportunities, job satisfaction, human resource managementAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between professional development opportunities and job satisfaction. In this research job satisfaction is dependent variable. Professional development opportunities as an independent variable are divided into seven sub-variables. The following demographic and social variables were observed as control variables: gender, age, level of education, work experience and the currently job position. Quantitative research methodology was applied in the paper. Based on the survey questionnaire, data from 143 employees in the surveyed company were collected. Data processing was performed on the basis of statistical software for social sciences - SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences - SPSS). The main findings indicate positive impact of professional development opportunities on employee job satisfaction. The originality of this paper refers to the acquisition of new scientific facts and knowledge related to the human resource management, and more specific related to the human resource development, motivation and job satisfaction. The research model, created scales related to professional development opportunities, and set of observed control variables can be used to repeat the research in the observed organization, in order to continuously monitor the relationship between individual elements of professional development opportunities and job satisfaction. The five-point Likert type scale which is used in this research is analytical enough to obtain important information on job satisfaction, and can serve managers in the company to adopt corrective activities and measures in order to improve employee satisfaction. The complete model can also be used to conduct comparative research in other organizations in the country and the region. The research limitations refer to the fact that relationship between a defined dependent and independent variable was observed in a single business entity. However, the broad coverage of employees in the observed business entity and their answers provides a good basis for replication of the research construct in other organizations or business branches in order to add significance and universality to the model.
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