Determinants of job satisfaction among Gen-Y at Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Corporation (PRPC) Sdn. Bhd.

This research aims to investigate job satisfaction among the new and young employees at PETRONAS Refinery Petrochemical Corporation (PRPC) Sdn. Bhd. There are three objectives had been set in this research. First, to examine the level of job satisfaction among Gen Y employees. Second, to examine the relationship between relationship, salary and opportunity for growth towards job satisfaction and third, to identify the factors that contribute the most towards job satisfaction. In order to complete this study, the data was obtained from primary data through the distribution of questionnaire. Therefore, the questionnaire was distributed to 100 respondents which to those Gen-Y among the PRPC employees. The questionnaire is about factors that contribute to job satisfaction. Then, all the collected data were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. For descriptive analysis, the means value of Job Satisfaction is 3.50, it can be concluded that in term of level of job satisfaction, it seems that the respondents of this study agreed that currently they are satisfied with their jobs at PETRONAS Refinery Petrochemical Corporation (PRPC) Sdn. Bhd. From the correlational testing, the result show that the relationship between relationship and job satisfaction posed the highest correlational. Moreover, the result from regression analysis revealed that only relationship and opportunity for growth is significant towards the job satisfaction. Besides that, among the three hypotheses proposed by the researcher, only Hypotheses 2 (Salary) is rejected. In conclusion, it shows that top management of PRPC need to improve their relationship with younger employee and provide more opportunity for them to grow in the company will ultimately increase their job satisfaction.