Human capital is important to the success of every organization. As a result, entrepreneurially conceived firms provide workers' job satisfaction to optimize their competencies and performance. The research title for this master Project is “Factors influencing employees’ job satisfaction among manufacturing sector in Selangor, Malaysia”. The dependable variable is job satisfaction, and the independent variables are employee development, employee rewards, and employee work-life balance. Design/methodology/approach: The survey was conducted in 2022 through Google Form for Selangor manufacturing workers. Quantitative research methodology that combined probability sampling with a combination of basic random sampling and cluster sampling methods is applied in this study. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software is used to interpret the acquired data to determine the factors affecting job satisfaction among the workers. The results of this research revealed a substantial relationship between job satisfaction and each of the three independent variables of employee development, employee rewards, and employee work-life balance. The study's sample being restricted to employees in Selangor's manufacturing industry. Therefore, the findings cannot be generalized to a larger population. This study should thus be repeated with participants from other sectors in the country. On the other hand, in order to increase the generalizability of the results, future studies should analyze samples with a wider scope and more diversified characteristics.
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