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Employee satisfaction is increasing in importance, as the competition for talent is high and still growing. Unengaged employees cause unsatisfied employees which eventually lead to high turnover rate that slow down the organization growth. However, up to this date, there is limited study regarding the job satisfaction that involve of employee engagement in UAE. This paper focus on identifying and analysing employee engagement’s factors that can enhance job satisfaction among the employees. A literature survey has been conducted to identify the factors that influence thejob satisfaction among the employees. A total of 6 significant factors are obtained through literature review which are working environment, leadership, perceived organization support, training and development, rewards and salary. A survey method was used to collect data from 392 respondents. The data were analysed based on regression model to test the six hypotheses. The results derived show that there are only three significant factors which are working environment, leadership and perceived organization support. There are three insignificant factors, which are training and development, rewards and salary towards employee’s job satisfaction. The findings of this paper can act as reference or guide for organization leaders and managements about the guideline the findings of this paper can act as reference for the employer to achieve job satisfaction among their employees.
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Abdullahrahman, F. R., Abdulla, N. A. A., Kudus, N., Kamalrudin, M., Akmal, S., & Hakimi, H. (2024). Analyzing Factors of Employee Engagements to Enhance Job Satisfaction among the Employees in United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14(8), 1953–1965.
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