Job Satisfaction of Private and Public Banks' Employees in Sylhet City: An Evaluation

Abstract

Job satisfaction is an important and burning researchable issue for academicians and researchers. The success or failure of any organization especially banking sector largely depends on employees' job satisfaction. The main purpose of this paper is to find out some important factors that affect the employees' job satisfaction and to compare between private and public sector banks. The sample consists of 80 bank employees taking 40 from 4 public sector banks and 40 from 4 private sector banks. Questionnaire method is used to collect information. The questionnaire consists of two parts including demographic part and another part is on factors affecting job satisfaction. A five point Likert scale has been used to rank the collected data. The researchers have used percentage, mean, standard deviation and t test to analyze the collected data. The major findings of this study are the employees of public banks perceive greater satisfaction with job security and compensation packages as compared to private banks employees. On the other hand, private sector banks employees have expressed greater satisfaction with salary and co-worker relationship as compared to those of public sector banks employees.