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Abstract
The concept of Job satisfaction traditionally has been of great interest to social scientists concerned with the problems of work in an industrial society. A number of consequences have been shown to result from Job satisfaction/dissatisfaction, both with respect to the workers' psychological well-being and with respect to the effective functioning of organizations. Despite the large number of studies that have dealt with these issues, there has been little commutation of knowledge. Much of this difficulty stems from problems in comparing studies and estimating trends due to difference in measurement of Job satisfaction, sampled populations and time periods. Of these, differences in measurement techniques are especially problematic since a multitude of indicators have been developed and it is questionable whether they all measure the same thing. An illustration of this is the various controversial research results regarding to the relationship between Job satisfaction and several demographic variables, such as age and gender. So research is necessary to examine the different ways of measuring Job satisfaction. Such knowledge would help researchers in assessing the dependence of their inferences regarding the causes and consequences of Job satisfaction on the indicators they have used to measure the concept, and would thus facilitate the comparison of research findings.