The impact of compensation on employee job satisfaction: a case of national database and registration authority (NADRA)

Abstract

This research study is aimed to find out the impact of compensation on employee job satisfaction in NADRA, Pakistan. This research study is about to identify the factors of compensation which are most important to influencing the job satisfaction in NADRA. There are two types of compensation that is financial compensation and non-financial compensation. In this study Population included the employees of a case company National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). There were only two regions from Pakistan where the offices of NADRA exist i.e. rural and urban. These two regions contain 3500 employees and are made part of the study selected. Questionnaires were distributed to 200 employees out of 3500 available employees in the selected regions. Guttman’s reliability test, ANOVA analysis for Between and Within items, Pearson’s and partial correlations analyses used to examine the linear correlation between dependent and independent variables. Linear regressions and multiple regressions also applied. The result shows that salary impact, promotion of the employee, rewards and recognition has a significant positive impact on job satisfaction and job security insignificant and negative relationship with job satisfaction. Also the study conclude that rural and urban as control variable has no impact on the relationship between impact, promotion of the employee, job security, rewards, recognition and job satisfaction.