At Movies Under the Stars Drive In Movie Theater, employee job satisfaction is a company priority. It is important for the company to keep the turnover rate low while developing and maintaining productive and experienced employees to help expand the brand. Employee job satisfaction contributes to making a more profitable company (Lotich, 2015). Since this organization is a small business, financial rewards and benefits are few and far between. The company instead works to promote job satisfaction in other ways. Ways like fostering a work environment where respect is a core value that starts at the top. Managers must treat all employees (other managers included) with respect. Employees must also provide that same respect when interacting with …show more content…
Employees who don’t have job satisfaction are more likely to miss work and/or find employment elsewhere (Aamodt, 2014). To help prevent absenteeism companies can work to improve employee job satisfaction by meeting the needs of the employee through various means or they can offer rewards/incentives and even punishments to those employees who either violate or follow the established guidelines (Aamodt, 2014). Employee turnovers aren’t always a bad thing for companies (Aamodt, 2014). In cases where turnover rates are costing the company too much money the organization must work to figure out how to reduce turnover rates. Employers must first figure out why employees are leaving the company and this is done via surveys and/or exit interviews (Aamodt, 2014). None of the employer’s efforts will be helpful in reducing both absenteeism and turnover if job satisfaction is low. Aamodt notes that all in all “satisfied and committed employees are more likely to have better performance, have lower turnover, miss fewer days of work, be more motivated, engage in organizational citizenship behaviors, and be less likely to engage in counterproductive work behaviors,”