Does anyone know of a study that investigates determinants of being both highly satisfied at the job and a high performer? I am looking to conduct an empirical study that examines predictors of high adherence to practice standards concurrent with high professional satisfaction among physicians.
I have found numerous studies that analyze the factors that influence either performance or satisfaction. But I have found no studies that predict the concurrence of both good performance and happiness at the job. There are also dozens of studies that assess whether satisfaction causes good performance, or vice versa. However I am more familiar with the healthcare and psychology literature, but have little knowledge of management literature or organizational science. Surely there is a precedent out there for this kind of study. Not so?
I believe the following papers provide valuable insights about job satisfaction - job performance relationship:
Bowling, N. A. (2007). Is the Job Satisfaction - Job Performance Relationship Spurious? A Meta-Analytic Examination. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71(2), 167–185.
Schleicher, D. J., Watt, J. D., & Greguras, G. J. (2004). Reexamining the Job Satisfaction-Performance Relationship: The Complexity of Attitudes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(1), 165–177.
Marlena,
Thank you for sharing the two papers. Yes, they do provide some insights. But, once again, they are pre-occupied with the question of whether and when high satisfaction causes good performance. My question is different. I am interested in: What predicts high satisfaction and high performance occurring together? I am not interested in modeling them separately but concurrently.
My intuition is that society should be interested in practitioners being both high performing and happy with their jobs, right? I see no point in separating them which seems to be the pre-occupation of previous studies. Little wonder that such studies are unconvincing in their findings. Surely there is some one out there who has sI'm tudied determinants of congruence between satisfaction and performance?!?!
Anthony: Maybe this article could be interesting:
H Imran, I Arif, S Cheema, M Azeem; (2014). Relationship between Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Attitude towards Work, and Organizational Commitment. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Journal.
To understand high job satisfaction, it would be helpful to understand the causes of why employees are dissatistied. try reading the following case article to understand why Employee turnover occurs in a company. Understand the many symptoms that summarize into 7 major problems. why such engaements causes employee to be dissatisfied and how the company overcome them. Look at the solutions and how the whole SVP framework summarizes into framework that the explains the critical success factors to Employee retention and job satisfaction. Can this critical success factors lead to high job satisfaction. You may want to test the factors as your IV and its relationship with Job satisfaction (mediator) and Employee performance (DV).
KaderAli, Noor N., Wilson, Priyah, & Mohammad, Ismeth Y. (2014). Symptoms Versus Problems (SVP) Analysis On Job Dissatisfaction And Managing Employee Turnover: A Case Study In Malaysia (2015). International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, United Kingdom Vol. III, Issue 4, April 2015 Licensed under Creative Common Page 1 http://ijecm.co.uk/ ISSN 2348 0386
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