The Job Satisfaction of Student Part-time Workers

Abstract

This paper reports the findings of a survey of the job satisfaction of 295 part-time workers who were also full-time secondary school students. The results indicate that the students were quite happy with their part- time jobs. The students' attitudes towards their jobs were highly positivelv correlated with the amount of money earned, suggesting that pay, for these employees, is a dominant aspect of work. Additionally these student part-time workers indicated that they were well satisfied with the quality of supervision encountered as well as the physical working conditions and related benefits. Reaction to the actual work tasks allocated to them was more varied, with more than half the students judging their work to be tiring and repetitious but, nevertheless, challenging.