1. Does gender (the biological sex of individual international civil servants) affect the level of job satisfaction among international civil servants at the United Nations Secretariat in New York?

2. Does employment status (career staff or shortterm staff) affect the level of job satisfaction among international civil servants at the United Nations Secretariat in New York?

3. Does organizational hierarchy (the level in the organizational hierarchy of the positions held by individual members of the staff) affect the level of job satisfaction among international civil servants at the United Nations Secretariat in New York?

While the level of job satisfaction in organizations generally has been exhaustively studied and extensively reported in the literature, job satisfaction research specifically targeting internationa

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The research that will be performed for the proposed study will be designed to permit three twosection divisions of the research sample. To test the hypothesis related to the effect of gender on job satisfaction, the research sample will be divided into female and male members. To test the hypothesis related to employment status, the research sample will be divided into career and shortterm members. To test the hypothesis related to organizational hierarchy, the research sample will be divided into senior staff and other staff members. This design will permit the assessment of each of the explanatory variables independently.