title: The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Productivity-Related Costs: A Longitudinal Analysis.
abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal relationship between job satisfaction and total productivity-related costs, and between job satisfaction and absenteeism and presenteeism costs separately. A secondary aim was to explore whether these relationships differed across job types.
  
  
  
  Linear generalized estimating equation analyses were used to explore the longitudinal relationships. To explore whether the relationships differed across job types, stratified analyses were performed.
  
  
  
  A significant relationship was found between job satisfaction and total productivity-related costs [β = &OV0556;-273; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): -407 to -200] and between job satisfaction and presenteeism costs (β = &OV0556;-276; 95% CI: -367 to -235), but not between job satisfaction and absenteeism costs. These relationships differed across job types.
  
  
  
  Higher levels of job satisfaction were longitudinally related to lower total productivity-related costs and presenteeism costs, but not to lower absenteeism costs. These relationships seem to differ across job types.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam (Ms Arnold, Dr van Tulder, Ms Nieboer, Dr van Dongen); Department of Public and Occupational Health and the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center (Drs Coffeng, Boot, van der Beek); Body@Work, Research Center for Physical Activity, Work and Health, TNO-VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Drs Coffeng, Boot, van der Beek, van Tulder, van Dongen).
authors.forename: Amélie E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Jennifer K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Coffeng
authors.forename: Cécile R L
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Boot
authors.forename: Allard J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: van der Beek
authors.forename: Maurits W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: van Tulder
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nieboer
authors.forename: Johanna M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: van Dongen
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000328:Adult; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000069597:Presenteeism / Q000191:economics; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic