Macroergonomic conditions and job satisfaction among employees of an industry

Habibi, Ehsanollah; Amini, Navid Reza; Zare, Mohsen; Pourabdian, Syamak; Rismanchian, Masoud

doi:10.4103/2277-9183.100135

Macroergonomic conditions and job satisfaction among employees of an industry

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ehsanollah Habibi ¹

Navid Reza Amini ¹

Mohsen Zare ²

Syamak Pourabdian ¹

Masoud Rismanchian ¹

¹ Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

² International Campus of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

10.4103/2277-9183.100135

Abstract

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between macroergonomics score and job satisfaction among industrial employees. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was done among 83 employees from a factory affiliated with Iran Khodro Company. Two questionnaires including Minnesota Job Satisfaction and Macroergonomics Condition have been used. Finally, the collected data was evaluated and analyzed through SPSS 10 software program. Results: The mean age of the subjects in this study was 30.8 and the work experience of 56.6% of them was between 4 and 7 years. The average macroergonomics score in the whole group in this study was 59.8. The maximum score given to this condition was 85, and the minimum score was 30. Also, the mean of job satisfaction score among the subjects was 60.5. The highest job satisfaction score was related to supervisors, which was about 69.2. There was a significant relationship between the general area of macroergonomics and job satisfaction. (r = 0.638, P-value <0.001). Conclusions: This study showed the higher macroergonomic scores, the better the work conditions, and, therefore, the employee's job satisfactions improve.

Keywords

Human factors

job satisfaction

macroergonomics