Abstract:

For managers and supervisors it is very important to know how employees respond to job dissatisfaction Through the help of such knowledge these managers and supervisors will be able to diagnose the employee job dissatisfaction that might exist in the work place and then take the necessary precautions in a timely manner Research has shown that employee job dissatisfaction responses can be classified under four major headings They are: 1 Exit Leaving the organization; 2 Voice Actively and constructively attempting to improve conditions; 3 Loyalty Passively but optimistically waiting for conditions to improve and 4 Neglect not paying attention to the work or engaging in lax and disgraceful behaviors The more managers and supervisors are aware of the nature and the type of these responses the greater that they will gain control over these behaviors How employees respond to job dissatisfaction is a relatively new phenomenon and has been studied satisfactorily in the western cultures In Turkey however scholars have not paid much attention –if any at all to this phenomenon Thus in this study an attempt has been made to explore the job dissatisfaction responses of Turkish employees and the likely implications of these responses have been discussed

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