Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.
The happy-productive worker hypothesis has most often been examined in organizational research by correlating job satisfaction to performance. Recent research has expanded this to include measures of psychological well-being. However, to date, no field research has provided a comparative test of the relative contribution of job satisfaction and psychological well-being as predictors of employee performance. The authors report 2 field studies that, taken together, provide an opportunity to simultaneously examine the relative contribution of psychological well-being and job satisfaction to job performance. In Study 1, psychological well-being, but not job satisfaction, was predictive of job performance for 47 human services workers. These findings were replicated in Study 2 for 37 juvenile probation officers. These findings are discussed in terms of research on the happy-productive worker hypothesis.
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Managerial Sciences Department, University of Nevada, Reno 89557-0206, USA. taw@scs.unr.edu
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012947:Social Work