Development and test of a work satisfaction-job performance framework
Description
Previous job satisfaction-job performance literature has not systematically attended to key aspects of an integrated individual difference framework for studying relationships between satisfaction and performance variables. Addressing these issues is of primary importance to researchers' abilities to understand and accurately quantify the inferences drawn from measures of satisfaction and performance. The primary purpose of the present study was to delineate a work satisfaction-behavioral performance theoretical framework and evaluate the generalizability of hypothesized relationships within this framework. Meta-analyses involving 231 studies were conducted to test the hypothesized relationships between work satisfaction and behavioral performance constructs. Based on the meta-analytic tests, the present study found support for the proposed theoretical framework as, in general, significant and positive results were found between specific work satisfaction dimensions and behavioral performance dimensions, as well as between composite measures of work satisfaction and job performance. Noteworthy, the mean estimated correlation between composite measures of work satisfaction and composite measures of job performance, based on 69 effects and a total sample size of 13,801, was .26; a practical and statistically meaningful difference from Iaffaldano's and Muchinsky's (1985) reported overall relationship between job satisfaction and job performance of .17. The practical and scientific implications of these findings were discussed