Labor Satisfaction in Microenterprises Producing Dairy Derivatives of Cañar Canton

Abstract

The article highlights the importance of job satisfaction of employees to business performance; and what are the variables related to satisfaction, for it has been considered the criteria of several authors who contribute their knowledge and definitions that allow support of research and understand the big picture. The objective was to determine the level of job satisfaction of employees working in producing micro-dairy, determine how they feel in their jobs, internal and external factors that lead to satisfaction or dissatisfaction and how this influences productivity of microenterprises. According to the results it is concluded that there is no correlation between these two variables and each is independent of the other. Job satisfaction depends on other variables such as the relationship with the executive heads, supervision received, working conditions, and the system of rewards, motivation, company policies, and opportunities for professional development, the opportunity to innovate and take risks, among others. Furthermore productivity is measured as the amount of products obtained from the use of resources; is the optimal combination of inputs, a good definition of production processes and adjusting times can improve the expected results and increase productivity.