Occupational health and safety, job satisfaction and employee performance at United Sea Foods (U) Limited

Abstract

Odembo (2013), describe job satisfaction as the psychological state of how an individual feels towards work, in other words, it is people’s feelings and attitudes about variety of intrinsic and extrinsic elements towards jobs and the organizations they perform their jobs. Employees’ satisfaction is considered as all-around module of an organization’s human resource strategies. According to Simatwa (2011) job satisfaction means a function which is positively related to the degree to which one’s personal needs are fulfilled in the job situation. Job satisfaction means pleasurable emotional state of feeling that results into performance at the workplace (Simatwa, 2011). Employee job satisfaction is supremely important in an organization because it is what productivity depends on. If your employees are satisfied they would produce superior quality performance in optimal time and lead to growing profits.