Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of job dissatisfaction, and to ascertain the association between job strain and job dissatisfaction and socio-demographic and occupational factors among laboratory staff of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 450 research laboratory staff in 10 faculties and 8 institutes of Universiti Putra Malaysia. Probability appropriate to size sampling and simple random sampling method were used and data were collected via job content Questionnaire (JCQ) from September 2012 to February 2013. SPSS (version 20.0) software was used for data analysis.Results: A total of 285 laboratory staff with at least one year job tenure participated in this study (Response rate: 91.3%). The finding revealed that 47% of laboratory staff reported job dissatisfaction. The results of this survey showed laboratory staffs with age 35, and less were two-fold more likely to report job dissatisfaction than the older staff (adjusted OR=2.108, 95% CI: 1.241- 3.582). Laboratory staffs with higher toxic exposures 2 times more likely to report job dissatisfaction (adjusted OR=1.887, 95% CI: 1.062-3.353).Conclusion: There is a need to have training plans to increase the knowledge on toxic exposures among younger laboratory staff, which may be helpful to reduce job dissatisfaction among them.

Assessment of job satisfaction of the employees and identifying the influential factors on their satisfaction/dissatisfaction seems to be vitally important. This research is intended to assess job satisfaction of the employees of FAVA of the army and to identify the factors most influencing it. The factors influencing on job satisfaction are classified into four groups, including individual, organizational, environmental and job nature factors. Satisfaction is also classified into four groups including colleagues and principals, the value of the work, salary or wage, and organizational conditions. The data is collected by two types of questionnaire on job satisfaction and influential factors. The reliability of the questionnaire turned out to be %82 and %79 respectively according to Cronbach alpha coefficient. The number of sample was calculated to be as much as 151 subjects. Instead of analyzing the data by descriptive statistics (mead, media, standard deviation and percentile) and inferential statistics, the researcher employed Smirnoff, Friedman, binomial for analyzing gaps and regression. The findings reveal that all four factors of work environment (2.74), individual factors (2.53), the nature of the work (2.53) and organizational factors were influential on the job satisfaction of FAVA employees. the results also indicated that the most important factor turned out to be satisfaction from the managers (%2.6), and the least important one was satisfaction from the organizational condition.