ABSTRACT
This study investigates work situational factors and employee job satisfaction in Nigerian banking sector. The objectives of the study were to find out if there exists a relationship between job security and employee job satisfaction; to ascertain if there is a relationship between Salary and employee job satisfaction; to find out if there is a relationship between Work environment and employee job satisfaction; to determine if there is a relationship between management supervision and employee job satisfaction; and to determine if there is a relationship between Career development in the banking sector and employee job satisfaction.
Respondents were selected from 4 banks in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The data were collected through personal administration of 212 questionnaires and had valid responses. The study also used frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, t-test statistics analysis, simple regression analysis and tables as major statistical tools for data analysis and test of hypotheses.
The analysis revealed that salary has significant influence on employee job satisfaction, job security has significant influence on employee job satisfaction, work environment has significant influence on employee job satisfaction; management supervision has no significant relationship on employee job satisfaction; career development has significant influence on employee job satisfaction, salary has more impact on employee job satisfaction than job security; work environment has more impact on employee job satisfaction than job security and that job security has more impact on employee job satisfaction than career development.
Finally, the study recommends that there is need for the practitioners to invest massively on employees as the employee is the one of the most important factor to organizational growth and survival. This will help attracts employees' attention and capture their interest. Also, company's management should both be proactive to employees' needs and wants. Finally, human resource experts should continue to engage their employees in training and retraining programmes.
