Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 2013, 1, 85-92
Published Online December 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/jhrss)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jhrss.2013.14012
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Empirical Analysis about Satisfaction Influencing Factors
of Core Employee in Chinese Small and Micro Enterprise
Pingping Xu, Ling Qiu
School of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
Email: Xupingping0529@163.com
Received October 26, 2013; revised November 28, 2013; accepted December 6, 2013
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ABSTRACT
The small and micro enterprises have made an important part of the national economy, and they develop rapidly in re-
cent years. Now, there are a large number of small and micro enterprises in China. They have strong employment ab-
sorption ability, and they are important objects that are supported by the state. However, the average life of small and
micro enterprises is relatively short and the ability of sustainable development is not strong. The main reason is the
turnover of enterprises’ core staff. There are many reasons that cause the loss of core staff, including the development
scale and development prospect of the small micro enterprise, and the related human resource decisions. Therefore, this
paper is devoted to the study of factors that affect satisfaction of core staff in small and micro enterprises, and explores
what factor plays a key role in improving the core employee satisfaction. The characteristic o f this paper is to evaluate
the satisfaction degree by combining the method of entropy weight method with grey relational analysis, and to estab-
lish the corresponding model. The model can reduce the influence of subjective factors, and improve the analysis accu-
racy of satisfaction influencing factors, thus practically provide a theoretical basis for the decision- making ab out human
resources of small micro enterprise.
Keywords: Small and Micro Enterprises; Core Employee; Satisfaction; Entropy Weight Method; Grey Relational
Analysis
1. Introduction
Small and micro enterprise is an important part of Chi-
nese economic society. In recent years, under the cons-
tant support o f national po licy, small busin ess has sprung
up like mushrooms. Although the scale of the enterprise
is small and the amount of money is limited, it has the
vital significance to expand the social employment and
make the national economy stable. But now the devel-
opment prospect of small and micro enterprise is not op-
timistic, especially the part of human resources, talent
turnover rate is really high. The main reason is that the
enterprise is hard to attract the core talents because of its
own factors such as scale and funding [1]. In addition,
human resources management mode is still in its infan cy
in most of small and micro enterprise, so that the impro-
per talent management leads to the loss of the core staffs.
For small and micro enterprise in growth, the core
staffs are an important part of enterprise’s core compete-
tiveness, also they are the backbone of enterprise devele-
pment. The loss of the core talents will make the enter-
prise in a passive position in the market competition [2].
Therefore, how to improve the small enterprise’s human
resources management system, enhance the satisfaction
of enterprise’s core employees, and reduce the turnover
of them become the research focus.
2. Review of Re levant Concepts
2.1. The Characteristics of Small and Micro
Enterprise
Small and micro enterprise is a unified name of small
business, miniature enterprise, cottage industr y enterprise
and individual industrial and commercial households [3].
This paper defines small and micro enterprise as the en-
terprise that has smaller scale of business and funds and
less number of employees. Small and micro enterprise
has a very wide range of distribution, such as in services,
manufacturing, commodity circulation industry, etc. Spe-
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cialized service ability of small enterprise is very strong,
so that it can carry on th e specialized service for specific
customer demand. The development space of small
business is very huge, and with the support of govern-
ment policy, small and micro enterprise is continuously
thriving. The most notable characteristic of small enter-
prise is that it has a strong abilit y to absorb employment,
which will play an important role in solving the hard
situation of Chinese current social employment. Small
business can also continuously attract investment, so that
to enhance the vitality of market economy and promote
the development of the market competition.
2.2. The Connotation of the Core Staffs
Many managers think that main benefits of enterprise are
created by a handful of employees, who is called core
staffs. The core talents have the nature of scarcity, gener-
ally account for 20% - 30% of total number of employees,
but the value they create accounts for 80% of the total
value of the enterprise [4]. This paper defines the core
staffs as the employees that grasp knowledge and tech-
nology, have the ability to do core business, and occupy
important positions in the enterprise. The core staffs have
a strong sense of self-awareness and self-consciousness,
they can help enterprise to create higher value, and achieve
the goals of the enterprise, so as to improve the core
competitive advantage of it. And for the enterprises’ de-
velopment, the core staffs also have a special strategic
vision, so they can help the enterprise to change in the
business strategy. They have made outstanding contribu-
tions to the experience and growth of the enterprise. The
biggest characteristic of the co re talents is that they can’t
be replaced, because they have key knowledge and skills
of the enterprise, so that ordinary employees can not re-
place them in important positions for enterprise operation.
In addition, the core employees often focus on play of
their skills and development of themselves, so they have
a strong desire to realize themselves. They will motivate
and urge themselves to achieve these two goals. The core
staffs expect to realize its own value in enterprise and
gain recognition fro m the society, and they have stronger
achievement motivation than ordinary staffs. Just be-
cause of particularity of the core employees, their satis-
faction requirements are very high. If the enterprise can
not meet their needs, or they feel development space for
them is limited which make their development is blocked,
so they will choose to leave, and this leads to the loss of
them.
3. The Research Methods
3.1. Questionnaire
Through literature reading, enterprise interview, and re-
lated scholars’ advice, the paper determines the factors
that affect the small and micro enterprise’s employee
satisfaction. After sorting and classifying, mainly divide
the influence factors into six categories, respectively is:
job, work environment, career development, role satis-
faction, job return, as well as the en terprise development,
and these are main factors [5]. It also concretely divides
the main factors into the sub factors, which is in ord er to
research the factors more specifically [6]. In conclusion,
there are 30 detailed sub factors, and on the basis of it,
design the satisfaction survey questionnaire.
Moreover, choose the LIKERT five-point scoring me-
thod, each index respectively is very satisfied, satisfied,
general, dissatisfied and very dissatisfied [7]. In order to
obtain the reliable data, this study selects several typical
Chinese small and micro enterprises, and distributes a
total of 148 questionnaires, an d there are 113 valid ques-
tionnaires. Respondents are mainly the knowledge em-
ployees in the small and micro enterprises. Knowledge
employees are the staffs that grasp knowledge and tech-
nology, have the ability to do the core business, and oc-
cupy the important positions in the enterprise.
3.2. Use Delphi Method and Entropy Weight
Method to Determine the Weight of Six
Indexes
3.2.1. The Delphi Method
O. Helm and N. Dalke (1940s) firstly created Delphi
method. And after further development by T.J. Golden
and the Rand Corporation, it became mature. The Delphi
method is a kind of subjective prediction method. It uses
back to back communication mode to consult experts’
predictive opinion, and after several rounds of consulta-
tion, opinions from the expert panel tend to be concen-
trated. As a result, it can forecast the market future trend.
Delphi method is based on the application of system,
and combines with the method of an onymous comments.
It means that team members can not discuss with each
other, or have lateral connection. They can only have a
relationship with investigators, and fill in the question-
naire, so that the investigators can gather opinions from
all respondents. Finally, this method can construct the
team communication process, and solve complex task
problem
3.2.2. The Definition of Entropy Weight Method
Choose ij
x
to represent the number expert score to
the index , and then standardize the index data [8]:
i
j

 
min
max min
ij ij
j
ij
ij ij
j
j
xx
x
x
x
The proportion of the standardized scores can be ex-
pressed as follows:
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1
, 1,2,,;1,2,,
10, 6
ij
ij m
ij
i
x
pimj
x
mn
 


n
Entropy value of the index is:
j
1ln
m
j
ij ij
i
H
kpp

Among the above formula, 1
ln
km
, and
j
H
also
can be expressed as:
1
1ln
ln
m
j
ij ij
i
pp
m

Among the above equation,
0,1;1, 2,,;1, 2,,
j
H
imj n
n
,
and if, , the difference coefficient of
index is:
0
ij
p
jln 0
ij ij
pp
1,1,2,,
jj
GHj .
The larger value of
j
G, the more important of the in-
dex.
At last, the weight of each index’s value can be com-
puted as follows:
1
,1,2,,
j
jn
j
j
G
wj
G

n
3.2.3. Resul ts of Specialist Research
After survey, it can get scores of influencing factors from
human resource experts, research results are shown in
Table 1.
Table 1. Ratings of the importance of the influencing fac-
tors scored by human resource experts.
Job Work
environment Career
development Role
satisfaction Job
return Enterprise
development
1 91 81 86 85 94 89
2 87 83 88 83 89 92
3 89 79 93 87 91 90
4 90 80 90 88 96 91
5 86 81 86 85 88 92
6 87 84 84 81 90 87
7 86 79 90 83 88 86
8 90 78 85 83 89 84
9 92 86 84 89 91 84
10 88 80 89 81 92 85
Using entropy weight method to calculate the scores in
Table 1, it can get entropy value of each influencing
factors, respectively is: H = (0.837, 0.864, 0.828, 0.846,
0.812, 0.838), the entropy weight of each influencing
factors is: w = (0.168.0.140, 0.176, 0.158, 0.192, 0.166).
Therefore, from the large to small of the entropy weight,
influencing factors respectively is: Job, Career develop-
ment, Enterprise development, Role satisfaction, and
Work environment.
3.3. The Grey Correlation Analysis Model
3.3.1. Polarity Reversal of the Data
Through questionnaire survey, it can get values of five
levels of each affecting factors, and use

i
Z
j to rep-
resent the index value of numberfactor. The calculation
process of grey correlation model is as follows. Used i
i
Z
to represent reference sequence of data behavior of each
influencing factor, length of i
Z
is n, interval of it is 1,
1,2, ,
ii ii
Z
zz zn. Due to the survey data
have both the profitability index and cost index, and the
lower value of cost index means the higher satisfaction of
the employees. On the contrary, for the profitability in-
dex, the larger value of it means the higher satisfaction of
the employees. So firstly conduct a polarity reversal to
the data [9].
1) Transform the original maximum sequence as the
way follows:



1
,1 ,1
max
i
ii
im
zj
y
jim
yj

jn

Among the above equation, represents the number
of the influencing factors, means the five index val-
ues.
i
j
2) Transform the original minimum sequence as the
way follows:

 
1
min ,1 ,1
i
im
ii
yj
yjimjn
zj


In the above formula, represents the number of the
influencing factors, means the five index values.
i
j
i
x
j represents the new sequence after the polarity
reversal, and after the transformation, all the index values
are between 0 ~ 1, 1 is on half of the optimal value, 0 is
the worst value.
3.3.2. Gray Absolute Correlation Degrees
Also use the behavior sequence of the two influencing
factors i and Y
j
Y in the part (1), deal with and
i
Y
j
Y as the following formula [10]:
01,1,2, ,
ii i
Yykyk n.
The available equation is:
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

00 00
1,2, ,
ii ii
yy yyn
As the same way to compute
j
Y,



00 00
1,2,,
jj jj
Yy yyn
Then
 
100
2
1
2
n
ii i
k
s
yk yn

;
 
100
2
1
2
n
jj j
k
s
yk yn

;
 

 

100 00
2
1
2
n
iji ji j
k
s
sykykykyn
 
Finally, use ij
to represent the correlation between
i
X
and
j
X
(The bigger numerical value of ij
, the
higher correlation of the two data’s behavior sequence).
1
1
ij
ij
ijij
ss
s
sss

 
3.3.3. Grey Relative Correlation Degrees
Also use the behavior sequence of the two influencing
factors i and Y
j
Y in the part (1), deal with and
i
Y
j
Y as the following way:
 

0,1,2,3,,
1
i
ii
yk
yk kn
y

The available equ ation is:


00 00
1,2, ,
ii ii
Yy yyn
n
Then process the data as follows:
 
00 0
1,1,2,3, ,
ii i
yykyk
 
The available equ ation is:


00 00
1,2, ,
ii ii
Yyy yn
 
As the same way to compute
j
Y:


00 00
1,2, ,
jjj j
Yyy yn
 
Then
 
100
2
1
2
n
ii i
k
s
yk yn
 

;
 
100
2
1
2
n
jj j
k
s
yk yn
 

;
 

 

100 00
2
1
2
ij
n
ij ij
k
ss
yk ykykyn



Use ij
to represent the relative correlation between
i and Y
j
Y, and get the result though the following
equation. (The bigger numerical value of ij
, the higher
relative correlation of the two data’s behavior sequence).
1
1
ij
ij
ijij
ss
s
sss



 
3.3.4. Gray Comprehensive Correlation Degrees
ij
and ij
respectively represents the gray absolute
correlation degrees and grey relative correlation degrees
of the and
i
y
j
y.
So
ij
1
ij ij
 
 is called gray comprehensive
correlation degrees.
0,
1, usually select 0.5 as the
value of
[11]. If you pay more attention on relation-
ship between the absolute amounts, then you can take
a few bigger, on the other hand, take
smaller.
3.4. The Results and Analysis
Through the data sorting, it can get the original data se-
quence as shown in Table 2.
In Table 2, ij
x
represents the sub factors that are cor-
responding to main factors.
The number of people in five levels of evaluation of
the questionnaire is marked by the order from low satis-
faction to high. And use N to show the five levels, N =
(1,2,3,4,5). 1) means very dissatisfied, 2) represents dis-
satisfied, 3) is general and so on.
In the process of calculation, because of the polarity
reversal to the data, so the original data sequence is
transformed into the maximum polarity sequence. Ac-
cording to characteristics of the maximum polarity se-
quence, this paper will choose the maximum value of
each five evaluation levels as the reference sequence,
namely the selected feature sequences that corresponding
to the five evaluation value sequences is C = (1,1,1,1,1).
On this basis, take the data from the maximum polarity
sequence into the grey correlation analysis model, and
conduct the calculation of gray absolute correlation de-
grees, gray relative correlation degrees, and the grey
comprehensive correlation degrees. Calculation results
are respectively shown in Tables 3-8. Each table means
the grey correlation degree of sub factors that are corre-
sponding to main factors.
According to the data in above table, it can get grey
comprehensive degrees of each factor. Then, Separately
multiply the degrees by their weight, namely respectively
by (0.168.0.140, 0.176, 0.158, 0.176, 0.158). multiply
factors under the index of job by the weights can get the
corresponding results: (0.127, 0.144, 0.136, 0.149, 0.158,
0.128, 0.158); multiply factors under the index of work
environment by the weights can get the corresponding
results: (0.110, 0.115, 0.119, 0.104, 0.109, 0.118); multi-
ply factors under the index of career development by the
weights can get the corresponding results: (0.171, 0.144,
0.165); multiply factors under the index of role satisfac-
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Table 2. Original survey data.
Satisfaction degree
N
ij
x 1 2 3 4 5
11
x
7 12 39 40 15
12
x
9 18 35 38 13
13
x
8 14 51 28 12
14
x
11 21 38 24 19
15
x
10 17 50 27 9
16
x
12 19 40 34 8
17
x
8 11 36 42 16
21
x
9 15 30 46 13
22
x
11 24 39 25 14
23
x
12 27 53 14 7
24
x
6 12 31 45 19
25
x
8 11 43 38 13
26
x
9 23 51 18 12
31
x
13 18 42 30 10
32
x
12 19 43 26 13
33
x
15 23 48 16 11
41
x
13 27 49 14 10
42
x
9 20 46 25 13
43
x
10 19 44 22 18
51
x
12 29 36 28 8
52
x
11 27 44 18 13
53
x
7 16 41 32 17
54
x
10 18 49 25 11
55
x
8 21 46 26 12
56
x
8 14 40 36 15
61
x
9 16 29 41 18
62
x
8 12 43 36 14
63
x
12 23 51 18 9
64
x
9 14 45 32 13
65
x
13 27 41 20 12
tion by the weights can get the corresponding results:
(0.139, 0.132, 0.143); multiply factors under the index of
job return by the weights can get the corresponding re-
sults: (0.160, 0.16 4, 0.149, 0.149 , 0.149, 0.17 7); multiply
factors under the index of enterprise development by the
weights can get the corresponding results: (0.134, 0.130,
0.147, 0.139, 0.151).
Thus, after multiply comprehensive correlation de-
grees by its entropy weight, the following indexes finally
have relatively higher correlation degrees: The level of
Table 3. The calculation results of grey correlation degree
about the related factors under the job index.
The influencing
factors of
Satisfaction
Gray absolute
correlation
degrees
Gray relative
correlation
degrees
Grey
comprehensive
correlation degrees
Competence
for the
position
11
x
0.757 0.757 0.757
Challenge and
importance of
the work
12
x
0.868 0.842 0.855
Development
space of the
work
13
x
0.815 0.799 0.807
Protection and
stability of the
work
14
x
0.907 0.868 0.887
Diversification
of the work
content
15
x
0.949 0.930 0.939
Job interest
16
x
0.797 0.730 0.763
Job autonomy and
flexibility
17
x
0.942 0.936 0.939
Table 4. The calculation results of grey correlation degree
about the related factors under the index of work environ-
ment.
The influencing
factors of
Satisfaction
Gray absolute
correlation
degrees
Gray relative
correlation
degrees
Grey
comprehensive
correlation degrees
Natural
environment
21
x
0.810 0.760 0.785
Office conditions
22
x
0.858 0.789 0.824
Work and rest time
arrangement
23
x
0.884 0.812 0.848
Security
24
x
0.745 0.745 0.745
Style of leadership
and management
mode
25
x
0.793 0.758 0.776
Internal harmonious
relations
26
x
0.864 0.821 0.842
individual efforts and pay that reflected by individual
compensation; Learning and training opportunities; Pro-
motion channels and rising space; Fair and reasonable
promotion system ; The value difference of internal jobs
that reflected by individual compensation; Job autonomy
and flexibility; The diversification of work content; The
participation degree in enterprise managemen t.
In view of the above results, the small and micro en-
terprise can take the following measures to improve the
mployee satisfaction: First of all, improve the enter- e
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Table 5. The calculation results of grey correlation degree about the related factors under the index of career development.
The influencing
factors of Satisfaction Gray absolute
correlation degrees Gray relative
correlation degrees Grey comprehensive
correlation degrees
Learning and training opportunities

31
x
0.973 0.970 0.971
Promotion channels and rising space

32
x
0.816 0.816 0.816
Career planning guidance

33
x
0.946 0.934 0.940
Table 6. The calculation results of grey correlation degree about the related factors under the index of role satisfaction.
The influencing
factors of Satisfaction Gray absolute
correlation degrees Gray relative
correlation degrees Grey comprehensive
correlation degrees
Sense of work accomplishment

41
x
0.885 0.871 0.878
Recognition degree that given in the work

42
x
0.833 0.833 0.833
Sense of belonging and pride in the enterprise

43
x
0.919 0.889 0.904
Table 7. The calculation results of grey correlation degree about the related factors under the index of job return.
The influencing factors of Satisfaction Gray absolute
correlation degrees Gray relative
correlation degrees Grey comprehensive
correlation degrees
The value difference of internal jobs that
reflected by individual compensation

51
x
0.862 0.803 0.832
The level of individual efforts and pay tha t reflected
by individual compensation

52
x
0.936 0.907 0.921
The comparison level of pay levels between i ndi vidu al
compensation and external labor market

53
x
0.778 0.778 0.778
The sufficiency level of social ins urance and welfare system
54
x
0.796 0.752 0.774
The sufficiency level of holiday, physical examination, etc
55
x
0.783 0.767 0.775
The fairness level of the promotion system

56
x
0.860 0.846 0.853
Table 8. The calculation results of grey correlation degree about the related factors under the index of enterprise develop-
ment.
The influencing factors of Satisfaction Gray absolute
correlation degrees Gray relative
correlation degrees Grey comprehensive
correlation degrees
The identity degree to t he enterprise’s development vision
61
x
0.815 0.802 0.808
The identity degree to t he enterprise’s business strategy
62
x
0.781 0.781 0.781
The identity degree to the enterprise’s management system
63
x
0.901 0.864 0.883
The identity degree to the en terprise culture

64
x
0.842 0.829 0.836
The participation degree in the e nt erprise management
65
x
0.929 0.894 0.911
prise’s training mechanism, which will raise the ability of
employees and promote development of the enterprise at
the same time [12]. Secondly, establish an effective com-
pensation management system. Compensation needs to
be linked to performance, so as to ensure the fairness of
compensation. Thirdly, small and micro enterprise needs
to do career planning for core staffs, so as to realize long-
term development of them. Then, have reasonable job
design, which will improve diversity and challenge of
work, thus cultivate the employees’ work interest [13].
Finally, increase employee participation in management.
Make employees feel like they are part of the enterprise
and need to assume corresponding responsibilities, so as
to increase their sense of belonging to the enterprise.
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4. Conclusions
With continuous and rapid development of Chinese
economy, support from small micro enterprise to econ-
omy is more and more prominent. As the backbone of the
enterprise, core employees are also gained all aspects of
attention. There are many factors that may influence sat-
isfaction of core employees, such as corporate culture,
management mechanism, working environment and work
reward and so on, which will directly affect their work-
ing condition. Therefore, only correctly grasping key
needs of employee can make enterprise internal man-
agement effective.
General statistical method needs support of a large
number of data which has typical distribution. And its
inspection and computation is very complex. So it is not
suitable for small sample system. Then this article
chooses grey correlation analysis model for dynamic
analysis, which can comprehensively consider random-
ness and uncertainty of sub satisfaction factors. For main
factors, it selects Delphi method and entropy weight
method to determine their weights. With the co mbination
of two methods, a relatively objective result is obtained.
It also can get rank of the most important factors. The
influence degree of factors from great to small is respec-
tive: the level of individual efforts and pays that re-
flected by individual compensation; learning and train-
ing opportunities; promotion channels and rising space;
Fair and reasonable promotion system; the value differ-
ence of internal jobs that reflected by individual com-
pensation; job autonomy and flexibility; the diversifica-
tion of work content; the participation degree in enter-
prise management. With the research result, it can pro-
vide a scientific and reasonable theoretical basis for en-
terprise staff management, and improve job satisfaction
of the core employees at the same time.
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Appendix
Questionnaire for this research is shown in Table 9.
Table 9. The questionnaire sample.
1-1 How are you satisfied with competence for your current job
1-2 How are you satisf ie d w i t h c h a l l e n ge a n d importance of your work
1-3 How are you satis f i e d w i th development space of your work
1-4 How are you satisfied with protection and stabil i ty of your jo b
1-5 How are you satis f i e d w i th diversification of your work content
1-6 How are you satisf ie d w i t h your job interest
1-7 How are you satisfied with your job autonomy an d fl exib ility?
2-1 How are you satisfied with natural environment o f your job
2-2 How are you satisfied w i t h o ff i ce conditions?
2-3 How are you satisfied with work and rest time arrangement of your job?
2-4 How are you satisfied with security of your job?
2-5 How are you satisf ie d w i t h s t yle of leadership and management mode?
2-6 How are you satisfied wi t h i n t ernal harmonious relations?
3-1 How are you satisfied with your learning and training opportunities?
3-2 How are you satisfied with your job prom oti on cha nnels and ris ing sp ace?
3-3 How are you satisfied with your career planning guidance?
4-1 How are you satisfied with sense of accom plishment that given by the work?
4-2 How are you satisfied with recognition degree that given in the work?
4-3 How are you satisfied with sense of belonging and pr ide to the enterprise?
5-1 How are you satisfied with the value difference of internal jobs tha t reflected by individual compensation?
5-2 How are you satisfied with the level of individual efforts and pay that reflected by individual compensation?
5-3 How are you satisfied with the comparison level of pay levels between individual compensation and external labor market?
5-4 How are you satisfied with sufficiency level of social insurance and welfare system?
5-5 How are you satisfied with sufficiency level of holiday, physic al examination, etc?
5-6 How are you satisfied with fairness level of the pr o motion system?
6-1 How are you identified with the enterprise’s development vision?
6-2 How are you identified with the enterprise’s business strategy?
6-3 How are you identified with the enterprise’s management system?
6-4 How are you identifie d with enterprise culture?
6-5 How are you ident if ie d with participation degree in the enterprise management ?
For all the questions, se lective answers are five levels, respectively: 1) very dissatisfied 2) dissatisfied 3) genera l 4 ) satisfied 5) very satisfied.
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