External satisfaction consists of all the other factors which indirectly correlate with job satisfaction (i.e., job environment, interpersonal relations between colleagues, high salary and possibility of promotion).
Porter and Lawler [ 35] separate job satisfaction into internal and external satisfaction.
Major constraints arise from the available production capacities and the satisfaction of external demand.
Without deeper purpose, the satisfaction and happiness of external rewards always vanish over time.
However, to complete the picture, future patient satisfaction research should keep track of external and organizational circumstances that might influence these scores.
That's where my motivation comes from: it's all about personal satisfaction, like winning the Olympic gold medals was, but in terms of external perceptions I've got very little idea about that.
Comparing satisfaction results in organisations granted Gold or Silver Q Awards and those without this type of external recognition, we found statistically significant differences in the dimensions of training and internal communication.
Improved patient satisfaction with internal fixation has also pushed surgeons to seek surgical solutions without the use of external fixation [18].
This is the problem of "external validity".
There are several types of external messengers.
