Impact of family support and supervisory support on E-professional employees' job satisfaction

Abstract

Using correlation design, the present research endeavored to explore relationship between family support and supervisOly support on E-professional employees ' job satisfaction. This study hypothesized that family support on supervisory support would predict E-professional employees' job satisfaction. Using convenient sampling, 200 E-professionals working in Islamabad telecommunication company with an age of 21-50 (M=29.60 , SD=6.028) and with at least one year of job experience were approached. Family Support Scale (Baruch-Feldman, 2002). Supervisory Support Scale (Eisenberger, 1986) and Job satisfaction Scale (Oldham & Hackman, 1975) were employed to in the current research. The fmdings revealed positive and significant correlation between study variables i.e. family support, supervisory support and job satisfaction with both family support and supervisory support emerged as significant predictors of job satisfaction. Furthermore, no significant differences were found on study variables when respondents were compared on the type of family (joint versus nuclear) through a t-test significant mean differences were revealed on descriptive analyses when respondents" scores on the study variables were compared on demographics of gender and marital status.