Factors affecting job satisfaction of employees at Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) Point, Selayang

Job satisfaction is one of the most frequently studied characteristics in organizational behavior research and as an important element of how employees valued their jobs. Job satisfaction is defined as an individual’s attitude about the work role and the relationship of worker motivation to perform work well. There could be no job satisfaction where there is no motivation. In present age of growing technology and transformation in organizational work culture, job satisfaction has be very important indicator of management strategies. Without having job satisfaction, the whole organization might not run smoothly as it always depends on employees. Therefore, management should more focus and highlight on how to satisfy their employees in an appropriate way. The past researcher shows that there are many factors that affect the employee’s job satisfaction. Hence, this research was conducted to determine the factors that affecting to the job satisfaction of employees at Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority (FAMA) Point, Selayang. The main objective of this research is to know what may influence the job satisfaction among employee and their relationship with the pay fairness, motivation and employee empowerment. At the end, this research will determine whether job satisfaction factors such as pay fairness, motivation, and employee empowerment will affect towards employee’s job satisfaction at FAMA or not. This study has been conducted at FAMA and about 169 questionnaires has been distributes to the respondents in different department. By using questionnaire, the survey highlighted on the three job satisfaction factors as mentioned. Therefore, to analyze the data the researcher has used Reliability Analysis, Cross Tabulation Analysis, Frequency Distribution and Descriptive Statistic by using SPSS program.