When you think of job satisfaction, what do you believe is most important? Review the job satisfaction factors within each area - internal, external, and individual. Select one from each of these main areas that you would rank as most important. Next, describe the factor you selected for each, and justify your selection with specific information about how that factor influences your satisfaction in the workplace.

Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction has been defined in many different ways. Some believe it is simply how content an individual is with his or her job, in other words, whether or not they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. Others believe it is not as simplistic as this definition suggests and instead that multidimensional psychological responses to one's job are involved. Researchers have also noted that job satisfaction measures vary in the extent to which they measure feelings about the job