The Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among United States Air Force Security Police

Abstract

The volummous literature on workplace attitudes has identified two competing types as determmants of employee job satisfaction demographic charactenstics of individuals and the characteristics of the work environment This research tests the relative effects of these two sources of variation in job satisfaction among United States Air Force securay pohce Our findings suggest that work environment variables produce significant effects on employee job satisfaction, while demographic variables, generally, failed to demonstrate appreciable influence Since the former are a matter of public management practices and policies while the latter are fixed features of employee background, the imphcation of these findings is that public sector managers' leadership and management activities have senous consequences for employee job satisfaction