Effect of Mood on Job Performance Ming-Hui Kan Professor Stephen J. Famiglietti ESLG 0455 G05 Capstone Research Project October 28‚ 2011 Outline Thesis Statement: Mood has a strong effect on job performance. Positive mood results in higher quality of work and negative mood reduces task performance. Employers/employees should do everything they can to maintain a positive mood at the workplace. I. Introduction A. The Relations Between Mood‚ Work Attitudes and Work Performance B. The Hypothsis
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Paulett Esteban Class: 802 Unit 4 Performance Task 05/22/14 N.S.L.A. Henry Ford once said‚ “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” In an effective team everyone collaborates to become successful. Joshua Davis the author of “La Vida Robot” and Walter Isaacson‚ author of an excerpt from Steve Jobs share similar views on what makes an effective team. Both authors believe an effective team consists of individuals who have distinctive and noteworthy
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How to Increase job performance ….the main thing that matters to you as an employer is probably the way people do their jobs‚ and the results that they achieve. You cannot afford to employ people just because they are nice guys; you need to turn them into nice productive guys (Hackett‚ 1979). The above assertion by Hackett‚ (1979) cited in Ejiogu (2001:91) clearly explains the need and rationale for training‚ capacity building‚ appraisal or evaluation and motivation of staff or employees by the
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Selection Method and Job Performance HRM 301 Assignment 4-3 5/1/12 By use of the original five programmers the correlation value was strong but due to the high p-value the information would not likely be supported in hiring new people due to the validity. Without valid results from a test the test should not be used in during the selection process of new employees. It is very important that the design of a selection process is handled carefully and accurately to ensure that the company is
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Conceptual Background This paper will discuss about job satisfaction and its relation with job performance and absenteeism. Job satisfaction has been defined as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job. Stephen P. Robbins based in his book (Organizational Behavior‚ 12th edition) described job satisfaction as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. Job satisfaction is one of dependent variable of organizational
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Absenteeism and Job Performance Introduction Absenteeism has long been considered a significant and pervasive problem in industry. As a result‚ theories have been developed and numerous studies conducted to identify the causes of absenteeism. Probably one of the most common theories is the notion that absenteeism is caused by employees avoiding a painful or dissatisfying work situation. By the same token‚ this hedonistic theory would predict that employees who find their job more challenging
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Job and Career Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action and inaction‚ work and rest. Work provides us with an inner creative joy. It saves us from the routine and apathy of life. It puts our energies to a proper use. Unused energies create disorders in us. They make us physically unhealthy and mentally unhappy. Time hangs heavy on our shoulders when there is no work. It provides us with money for our life hood. It makes our life meaningful and peaceful. Idleness is more boring and
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strengths and weaknesses. Despite this‚ some other researchers argued that well structured-personality tests do not predict job performance under certain conditions. They suggested social analytical effects (Blickle‚ et al.‚ 2009)‚ frame-of-reference effects (Bowling & Burns‚ 2010)‚ cultural variation (Borkenau‚ et al.‚ 2013)‚ gender variation (Costa et al.‚ 2001) and the effect of the job description (O’Neill et al.‚ 2009) may have an impact on the validity of personality measures in real-world settings
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training and development on employee’s performance and accordingly on organization’s performance. Another objective of this paper is to stress on the importance given by the Egyptian Organizations to training and development as well as their opinions of training and development’s effect on their employees. The backbone of this study are the literature review that highlights the role of effective training and development in improving the employees performance‚ as well as a questionnaire conducted to
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on Performance Mohamed Farouk Ahmed (S0709030) The German University in Cairo Supervised By Prof. Dr. Ahmed Amin June 2011 Outline: I. Introduction: 1. Problem: Emotional Intelligence effect on Performance 2. Theoretical Background: Emotional intelligence introduction and development. 3. Purpose and Research question: Is there an effect of Emotional Intelligence on individual workplace performance? 4. Definitions of variables: Emotional Intelligence and individual performance
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