EDUCATED AND SATISFIED WORKER ? FOUNDATION OF MODERN AND SUCCESSFUL COMPANY

Modern business work and processes are technology intensive and they require educated and quality work force. Priority aim of human resource management today is to attract and keep those workers who can mostly contribute to successful and competitive company work with their knowledge and skills. This paper analyzes factors that determine quality level of workers contribution with the focus on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is complex attitude encompassing assumptions about work, beliefs, quality assessments. The following effects are results of job satisfaction: 1) productivity rise, 2) workers are more devoted to their obligations and tasks and 3) they are less absent from their work. Recent research results show job satisfaction is influenced by factors such as: gender, age, education level, working experience, working conditions, salaries, working time and promotion. The aim of empirical examination in this paper is to assess the satisfaction level of workers in the sample and to identify factors that contribute to professional satisfaction with the final aim to assess effects of job satisfaction on successful and competitive company work.