The Relationship among Psychosocial Risk, Motivation and Job Satisfaction: The Case of House-to-house Solid Waste Collectors in Gulele Sub City
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2021
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Abstract
The major purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship among psychosocial
risk, motivation and job satisfaction of house-to-house solid waste collectors in Gulele sub city.
It specifically examines the relationships among psychosocial risk, worker motivation and job
satisfaction. The study employed a quantitative research approach and Correlational research
design. The questionnaires were composed of three scales that distributed to 250 random
samples of house-to-house solid waste collectors in Gulele sub city, 229 participants filled the
questionnaire appropriately. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as
frequency, mean and standard deviation, Pearson product momentum correlation, multivariate
analysis of variance and standard multiple regression. For data analysis, statistical package for
social science (SPSS Version 20) was used. The result indicated that first, job satisfaction and
psychosocial risk had strong positive relationship. Second, job satisfaction and worker
motivation had strong positive relationship and lastly worker motivation and psychosocial risk
factors had weak positive relationship. Likewise, job satisfaction was found to be predicted
significantly by psychosocial risk and worker motivation, which accounted for 41.2% and 51.9%
of variance respectively. The study revealed that most solid waste collectors are vulnerable to
work related hazards and they did not followed risk prevention techniques because they did not
have enough knowledge how to intervene the problem. The study recommends that Gulele sub
city solid waste management office and Addis Ababa city Administration environmental
protection office should be identified the risk factors and design an intervention model for
prevention of targeted study population from work related hazards