Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.
@article{Wright2000PsychologicalWA, title={Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.}, author={Thomas A. Wright and Russell Cropanzano}, journal={Journal of occupational health psychology}, year={2000}, volume={5 1}, pages={ 84-94 } }
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…
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