2 nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (2 nd ICBER 2011) PROCEEDING 1330 JOB SATISFACTION OF CIVIL SERVANTS (AN EVIDENCE FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES) Hussain Naeem Ilham Sentosa Hadi Nejatian Shishi Kumar Piaralal (Limkokwing University of Creative Technology – Malaysia) Abstract Job Satisfaction has been a construct of study for many researchers in different areas of study and the literature has a multitude of articles. This vast number has alerted facilitated and empowered managers and executives to ponder on the employee’s level of job satisfaction and their behavior. The search for better jobs and the change of employer became an issue for every organizations as well as Governments. The purpose of the study is to investigate the level of job satisfaction of civil servants of Maldives and to explain the relationship between job satisfaction and salary, supervision and coworkers. A sample of 377 employees based on disproportionate stratified random sampling was chosen to collect information using a modified version of Spector’s Job Satisfaction Survey. The findings indicated that civil servants were satisfied with their job and statistically positive relationships existed between the dependent variable and the 3 aspects of job satisfaction. The generalization of the results of this study should be cautiously interpreted since the scope of the study is Maldives civil servants and the variables chosen were salary, supervision and coworkers. Future studies are recommended so that additional variables can be incorporated in the research instrument to understand their influences on job satisfaction. Key words: Job Satisfaction, Republic of Maldives, Job Satisfaction Survey 1. INTRODUCTION Job satisfaction is one of the most widely researched areas in organizational psychology (Keung-Fai, 1996) and organizational behavior (George & Jones, 2008;