Age and Job Satisfaction

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Group 11

• Age and Job Satisfaction
• Sweet Flake
• Shannon Jones
• Heather Nichols
• Michael Fulton
• Matt Kenny

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Some Terms

• Job satisfaction
• Work values
• Job rewards
• Developmental aging / Life cycles
• Intrinsic / Extrinsic
• Homophile

3
Carrie College Grad

• Why high job satisfaction?
• Naïve
• New on the market / high expectations
• Perceptions of job rewards

4
Molly Mom

• Changing intrinsic values due to changes in the
  family life-cycle
• Priority changes
• Dissatisfaction job mobility
• Growing financial responsibilities
• Conflict balancing work and family

5
Uncle Joe

• Newly satisfied worker
• Mill ideology / rejection of
• Being your own boss is not all its cracked up to
  be
• Self-actualization more important than money

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Martin mid-life Crisis

• Decrease in job satisfaction
• Developmental Aging
• Psychological adjustment to social roles during
  the life course (Kalleberg/Loscocco)
• Transitional times
• Questioning, reappraisal, and modification of the
  present life structure

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Oscar Old-age

• Less financial responsibility
• Better perception of job
• Higher job-stability (Seniority)
• Movement to better jobs, more rewards
• Increased life expectancy and higher population
  of 65 and older has lead to an influx in
  post-retirement work

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Trends and Conclusion

• There is a positive correlation between job
  satisfaction and age
• Graphs and charts
• Gender Differences
• Womens age-job satisfaction affected by cohorts
  due to changing social perceptions of working
  women
• Absence of cohort effect for males

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• Different stages of the life-cycle create
  changes in values
• Job rewards increase with age because mobility
  leads to better jobs