Self‐Development in a Changing Organisation, or “Who Pays and Who Gets the Benefit?”

Job satisfaction or dissatisfaction has a great effect on individual behaviour with equally important consequences for the organisation. It is to be expected that continuing and increasing dissatisfaction is a source of great tension between individuals and a threat to the organisation as a whole. Individual satisfaction is affected by the opportunities and scope that are available to that individual to pursue his or her self‐development. Dissatisfaction is one result if self‐development opportunities are either not available or are denied.