| Abstract [eng] |
The relevance of the topic. Companies have to retain employees in various ways because of growing competition, globalization, emigration and other processes in the labor market. Employees' expectations fulfillment is one way to retain them. The problem is that employees' expectations differ according to family status and other factors. It is important that unsatisfied expectations have a negative impact on work results and efficiency, involvement, commitment and increase employees' turnover. Meanwhile, fulfilled expectations increase not only the productivity, motivation and loyalty of the employees but also satisfaction in job and career. In addition, social, demographic, economic and technological changes have a significant impact on satisfaction in job and career. Job and career satisfaction differ in various countries and have been declining in recent decades, leading to a high level of interest from researchers. Job and career satisfaction are widely analyzed on the thematic of gender, age and education, but less on the areas of marital status, the number and age of children. Reconciling family and work life is a part of the daily life of the most working families because each person has several roles – parents, spouses, employees. Employees face the challenge of reconciling family and work life as they have to take on the demands and responsibilities of each role. The object of the research. The influence of family status on employees' expectations, job and career satisfaction is considered the object of the master's final degree project. The aim of the research. As the field of research on family, expectations and satisfaction in job and career is becoming more relevant and problematic in the world, this empirical study aims to reveal the influence of family status on employees' expectations and job and career satisfaction. The results of the research. 444 18 years old and older residents of Lithuania who work and have different family status were examined in this research. The following methods were used to measure constructs: Job Satisfaction Survey of Spector (1997) was used to assess the importance of expectations and to evaluated satisfaction in job; Career Satisfaction Scale of Greenhaus, Parasuraman and Wormley (1990) was used to evaluated satisfaction in career. The study determines that marital status and the number and age of children do not affect employees' satisfaction in job and career. However, they affect their expectations. In addition, employees' expectations and job and career satisfaction differ according to the gender, age and education. The characteristics of the company showed that the size of the company affects employees' expectations and satisfaction in job. However, it does not affect satisfaction in career. The sector of work affects all three constructs but the field of work affects satisfaction in job only. |
