A comparison of job facet satisfaction between paid and unpaid industrial workers.

In order to investigate whether the nonmonetary aspects of job satisfaction are the same for unpaid workers as for paid workers, job satisfaction as reported by 135 kibbutz members working in industrial firms was compared with that reported by 187 industrial employees from a similar in the private sector. The nonpay factors were as clearly discriminated in an unpaid population as in a paid population, and the order of importance of the nonpay factors of job satisfaction was similar for both populations. The results of the Job Description Index for the Israeli sample paralleled those of American samples, and it appears that the test can be used as a valuable tool in Israel. Although the notion of the purely economic man has been modified by the human relations movement to include recognition of man's ego, growth, and social needs, it is generally agreed that money plays a major role in determining the worker's job satisfaction. This viewpoint is best summarized by Opsahl and Dunnette (1966), who noted, Few would disagree that money has been and continues to be the primary means of rewarding and modifying human behavior in industry (p. 100).