Investigation of factors influencing job satisfaction on Red Cross Employees with strategic foresight approach

Planning systems in organizations are faced some challenges due to rapid environmental changes and strategic foresight have been extensively welcomed due to its flexible nature for unstable future alternatives. Strategic foresight process in organizations needs to pay attention to human resources. Vision-focused managers and leaders must pay more attention to create job satisfaction and motivation for future of organization. Thus, the main question of this research is to investigate affecting factors on employees’ job satisfaction and to present some ways for improving it. By reviewing affecting factors of employees’ job satisfaction and its relationship with future of organization, this study prepare research background for these topics.
In this research, all employees of Red Crescent society of Qazvin were studied. Confirmatory factor analysis is used both for assessing the relationship between questionnaire indicators and job satisfaction factors, and also for investigating the extent of relationship between job satisfaction factors and future of organization.
Findings: Factors influencing on job satisfaction are categorized into two sections: firstly, environmental factors of job which consist of the way people behave, nature of job tasks, relationship with colleagues, and rewards. Secondly, individual factors such as past experiences and personality. Both categories influenced each other In terms of job satisfaction.
Five factors influencing job satisfaction in employees of Red Crescent are were ranked as job nature, management (superior), colleagues, opportunities for promotion, salary, and benefits.