Wegman's employees also love Wegman's, consistently voting the company onto Fortune Magazines 100 Best Companies to Work for the last 23 years. Last year, it ranked number 3 in the nation.
I was happy to find this profile describing how a good employee-supervisor relationship led to Wegman's early adoption of the cauliflower rice craze. I think it does a great job of illustrating the antecedents of job satisfaction.
Here is the story of one employee, Jody, and the cauliflower rice at Wegmans. It isn't just a story of organizational success, it really is a nice story of how an employee tried to make life better for her customers, supervisors took notice, and everyone won in the end.
While there are many different ways to categorize and organize the antecedents to job satisfaction, here is the list form Levy's Intro Text:
For this activity, I asked my students in "class" (synchronous chat conversation during the Spring 2020 semester) to identify the antecedents that cam through in Jody's story and describe *why* the antecedent applied to the story. They talked about work-family issues, autonomy, supervisor relationships, and task significance, among others.
