Zadowolenie z pracy - problemy definicyjne

For many years, job satisfaction has been one of the most frequently undertaken research problems, first and foremost due to its significance for practice: for management as determinants of an employee's work readiness, for contemporary organisations both as an objective and indicator of organisational effectiveness; psychology is obliged to the significance of professional sphere in a person's life, the influence of job satisfaction on the quality of life and its subjective evaluation. Researchers have a great interest in this area, proof of which can be seen in the number of terms and definitions. Their ambiguity is an important, yet not always obvious, methodological problem. Different research attitude - as a result of ambiguous understanding of phenomena determined as "job satisfaction", "professional satisfaction" vs "dissatisfaction", "no satisfaction" - makes it difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to compare the results. Therefore, the article aims at presenting methodological difficulties faced by a researcher dealing with an interdisciplinary problem of job satisfaction, where doubts appear at the first stage, i.e. establishing definitions.