The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Thriving at Work in Lecturers in Bandung City

Lecturers need job satisfaction to stay motivated in improving their quality as educators and effectively transfer knowledge to students. In addition, thriving at work is also essential for career development. This study aims to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and thriving at work among lecturers in Bandung. The subjects were 132 lecturers aged 26–55 years. The instruments used were the Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) by Spector (1985) and the Thriving Questionnaire by Porath et al. (2012). This research used a correlational quantitative method with IBM SPSS 25 for Windows. The results show a significance value is 0.000 < 0.05 and a correlation coefficient of 0.304, indicating a positive relationship between job satisfaction and thriving at work.