Investigate the Correlation Among Work Autonomy and Fringe Benefits Towards Job Satisfaction Among Construction Professional in Chennai

Abstract

Job satisfaction is significant multifactor influencing workforce productivity. Job satisfaction is termed as positive emotional circumstances of an employee experience with particular job. Particular analysis is accomplished to examine the effects of job satisfaction towards increasing professional employee’s productivity levels in the construction organizations and to determine factors correlated with productivity decrease among professional construction employees with special reference to various construction industries in Chennai. In this study, 500 respondents selected on various job levels in construction industry are participated. Data was collected using demographic questionnaire and job performance-centric questionnaire as job descriptive index to investigate the job satisfaction level. Further questionnaire investigates effectiveness of the professional employee to increase the company productivity on managing the employee in the study. The job satisfaction level was considered as low, moderate and high, respectively. Also, their productivity was computed as moderate. Furthermore, positive association among between job satisfaction and work productivity indices was considered as significant with t-value as 2.624. The statistical analysis using SPSS software represents that productivity was significantly correlated with dimension of job satisfaction such as work autonomy and fringe benefits.