How Job Satisfaction relates to Perserverance and Goal-Setting

30 July 2015

This study is to understand the role job satisfaction has on an individual's traits of long-term passion and perserverance, and how they see their goal orientation in the current workplace (learning, performance and/or avoidance). The survey includes Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1994), Short Grit Scale (Duckworth, 2009) and Workplace Goal Orientation (van Dam, 2015) and other demographic questions.

Keywords

• Heriot-Watt University
• job satisfaction
• grit
• goal orientation
• workplace
• workplace motivation
• organizational psychology
• social cognitive career theory
• quantitative
• survey
• Employee

Ethical approval

This study has been approved by Heriot-Watt University (School of Life Sciences) for an MSc Business Psychology dissertation project, researching student Clement Goh under supervision by Dr. Sue Cowan. Approval was granted on 17th July, 2015.

About the researcher

Hey people! I am Clement Goh, a current MSc Business Psychology student who is interested in long-term motivation and learning applied to the workplace.

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