An analysis of factors which cause job-satisfaction or dissatisfaction among farm workers in New Zealand

Abstract

This study is set in the context of the New Zealand farm labour situation and is designed to identify and measure factors which make farm employees satisfied or dissatisfied with their employment. It draws on the methods and results of a study by the industrial psychologist Herzberg and adapts this into an experimental framework which permits the use of group questionnaires and multivariate statistical analysis. The data were collected in June 1966 when questionnaires were administered to eighty Lincoln College students who had completed a two and a half year period of pre-entry farm training.