Emotions And The Impact Of Job Characteristics On Job Satisfaction

Job satisfaction is the degree to which employees like their job. In regard to its relations with work motivation,performance and intention to quit the organizations concern this concept seriously. One purpose of this research 5-s using western job satisfaction scale to describe the distribution of Chinese employee's job satisfaction. Another purpose is handing employee's emotional characteristics and job characteristics as determinants of job satisfaction so we can know how this factors affect job satisfaction and compare the results with previous western research..The results shows that the global saicfaction level of Chinese is lower than the western norm.. In d-etails, the scores of 'Moral values', 'independence', 'social service' and 'co-workers' are relative high an-d 'compensation', 'advancement', 'supervision-human relations' and 'responsibility' are lower than others.In regard to the determinants,the positive affectivity have significantly positive contribution to job satisfaction but negative affectivity doesn't. Two emotion regulation manners: reappraisal and suppression don't show direct affection to satisfaction. But reappraisal relates to positive affectivity and job characteristics positively. It shows that reappraisal may facilitate job satisfaction implicitly disregard its weak direct relation with job satisfaction. The five core job characteristics: job feedback, task identity, autonomy,skill variety and task significance entirely show significant contribution to job satisfactjion.In the final section, the author analyzed these results and took a preview of futher research.