I’m studying for my Psychology class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?

How do you think your personality affects your job satisfaction? Do you think that you will be pretty satisfied (or pretty dissatisfied) in most jobs that you work at in the future, or do you think that your level of satisfaction will depend mostly on the characteristics of the job or the organization? Explain your answer. Do you know of anyone who almost always seems satisfied (or dissatisfied) with any job they work at? If so, what is that person’s personality like?

( should have two post, one own original post(300 words), and one response post to peer’s post(150 words)

Classmate A’s post:

I believe that my personality affects my job satisfaction because I am a little bit neurotic and pay close attention to detail and the way I am treated at work, which can either make me feel really satisfied or dissatisfied depending on my perception of multiple variables. I have found that as long as I get along with everyone I work with and am not overwhelmed by the work assigned, I find the job very favorable and vice versa. However, I believe that my level of satisfaction ultimately depends on the characteristics of the job/organization. This is because my thoughts about the job are dependent upon how the company treats me and I do not come in to a job with an automatic affect, whether negative or positive.

On the other hand, no matter what job my mom has, she always finds something to be unhappy about regarding either her position or the job environment. I believe it is her personality that causes her to always be dissatisfied, as she has a consistent negative affect and becomes very easily overwhelmed.

Classmate B reply to A’s post:

Hi A,

I agree with you I believe that our personalities affect our job satisfaction in the workplace. Everyone has a different personality so it will affect certain individuals in different ways. I too tend to pay attention to what people have to say about me whether it is a manager or coworker I tend to listen closely to what they say. I also second what you said about work environment, I feel like the place we work in will always tie into our personality as well. If you work in a place were there are hazardous conditions it will make your time there stressful and maybe affect your job performance which then leads to the supervisors saying something lastly resulting in affecting an individual depending on their personality. Thankfully there are resources to help improve these negative situations faced in a work place. I’m sorry to hear about your mom, maybe you can try giving her some advice. Thank you for sharing!

Classmate C’s post( you should reply this one)

Personality most definitely has an effect on job satisfaction. If someone is prone to negativity in their daily life, it would make sense that they would carry that negativity into their work life as well. The inverse of this is true as well.

I recently got back in touch with a past employer of mine who I haven’t seen for about a year. When I visited this establishment I worked at to pick up some food (it’s a food place) I was welcomed back by all the employees, and a wave of nostalgia hit me. While I don’t think the job was a good fit for me long term because of the lack of job variety, I do remember having a very outward positive attitude around my fellow employees, even in the most stressful of situations. As a result, my employees came to enjoy my company, a fact which I had almost forgotten until I revisited this place. While there were several factors that led me to leaving this place, the employees were never one of them. This isn’t to say the employees were perfect, on the contrary, some were prone to outbursts which made most everyone feel uncomfortable. Naturally animosities evolved between many of my coworkers and each other, which no doubt caused stressful situations for them. However, since I never got on anyone’s bad side, I never had to deal with that. This in conjunction with usually having employees being nice to me made me happier as a person. For this reason, I feel that whichever job I work at, I’ll likely feign positivity and inadvertently become more positive as a result. It’s like a positive feedback loop.

And just as a positive feedback loop can generate good continual outcomes, it can also create bad continual outcomes. I knew an employee I worked with who was pretty negative, and made a bad first impression with my coworkers on day one. Because of this my coworkers treated him badly, which led to him feeling even worse. He quit after about a week, and I lost touch with him. His problems were that he just wasn’t very interesting to talk to, he never smiled, and he only ever pointed out things that were wrong or bad. I never once heard him praise himself or anyone else. I feel bad for the guy, but I’m not sure if he’d be happy at any job if he can only see what’s wrong with the world.