Job Satisfaction in Libraries: Relationships of the Work Itself, Age, Sex, Occupational Group, Tenure, Supervisory Level, Career Commitment, and Library Department

Abstract

The study is guided by an interest in job satisfaction within the work setting. The chief hypothesis is that differences in job satisfaction will be found among library units and among occupational groups within libraries. The relationships of sex, age, and tenure to the job satisfaction of library employees also were explored. The results suggest that further library studies of job satisfaction will be more useful to the profession if placed within the context of the work environments in which librarians find themselves.