The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of job characteristics in various
fields on beauty professional’s job. The subjects used in this study consisted of 205 beauty
professionals with the different jobs: 50 make-up artists, 50 hair designers, 51 estheticians, and
54 nail artists. Job satisfaction contained overall job satisfaction and five facts satisfaction
(work-itself, pay, promotion, co-worker, supervisor). Multiple regression analysis used to verify the
effect of five job characteristics (Variety, Identity, Significance, Autonomy, Feedback) on overall
job satisfaction. Data collected from subjects were processed by SPSS computer package program.
The results were as below:
1. Overall job satisfaction was significantly different from working area of beauty advisor. Nail
artists were more satisfied with their jobs than other cosmetic artists.
2. Out of five satisfaction, one factors (Work-itself) was significantly different from working
area of beauty advisors.
3. As the result of correlation analysis to examine relationship between job satisfaction and
individual characteristic data, The length of beauty advisor’s service was significantly correlated
with overall job satisfaction.
4. Two factors among five facet satisfactions (Work-itself, Supervisor) significantly contributed
to the overall job satisfaction. β coefficients of two factors were 0.550, 0.130.
5. Two factors among five core dimensions (Identity, Variety) significantly contributed to the
overall job satisfaction. β coefficients of two factors were 0.360 and 0.155.
In summarizing the results of this study, out of five facet satisfaction, one factor(work-itself)
predicted and explained the overall job satisfaction of beauty professionals meaningfully. Variety
factor among five core dimensions (significance, variety, autonomy, identity, feedback) significantly
contributed to the job satisfaction.