Factors Inlfuence Job Performance

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, 2008, 57 (3), 441–465 doi: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2008.00328.x

Relationships between Facets of Job Satisfaction and Task and Contextual Performance

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Bryan D. Edwards*
Auburn University, USA

Suzanne T. Bell*
DePaul University, USA

Winfred Arthur, Jr.* and Arlette D. Decuir*
Texas A&M University, USA

This study examined the relationship between job satisfaction and task and contextual performance. Specifically, it assessed this relationship for overall as well as facets of job satisfaction. Four hundred and forty-four employees in a manufacturing plant completed measures of job satisfaction and their supervisors completed measures of task and contextual job performance.
Results indicate that the relationships between overall job satisfaction and task and contextual performance were the same. However, when the facets of job satisfaction were considered, different relationships emerged. There was a stronger relationship between satisfaction with supervision and contextual performance compared to task performance. In contrast, there was a stronger relationship between satisfaction with work and task performance compared to contextual performance. Results indicated the importance of considering different facets with the job satisfaction and job performance relationship, as well as the importance of matching predictors and criteria in terms of their levels of specificity.

* Address for correspondence: Bryan D. Edwards, Department of Psychology, Auburn
University, 226 Thach, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA. Email: [e-mail]; or
Suzanne T. Bell, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, 2219 North Kenmore Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois 60614-3504, USA. Email: [e-mail]; or Winfred

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