Predicting Job Satisfaction: Contributions of Individual Gratitude and Institutionalized Gratitude

     This study examined the role that employee perceptions of dispositional gratitude, state gratitude and institutionalized gratitude had upon job satisfaction. As a result, all three types of gratitude were positively correlated with job satisfaction. However, dispositional gratitude was not a significant predictor of job satisfaction when state gratitude and institutionalized gratitude were entered into the regression.

    The significant relationship between state gratitude and job satisfaction suggests that organizational leaders can aim to boost job satisfaction by regularly prompting grateful emotions.  Besides, it is also found that employees gain benefit, in the form of greater job satisfaction, through belonging to a workplace culture that endorses gratitude.

Article by Lea Waters, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.    

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