The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance

The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance

Dr. Aditya Farsole1, Hasna J. Patel2

ABSTRACT

The aim of the present research was to study the relationship between job satisfaction and  performance of employees working in a private sector organisation of Surat, Gujarat. For the  purpose, fifty participants (N=61) were selected as a sample from private organisations of  Surat, Gujarat. Employee were selected through convenience sampling method to measure job  satisfaction “The Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS)” was used to measure its impact on the  performance of employee “The 5-point Performance rating scale” employee performance scale  was used to measure employee performance “Task Performance Scale (TPS), Contextual  Performance Scale (CP) is used. This research was conducted on 50 employees and managers  ranging from the age group of 24 to 40 years. This research hypothesised that satisfied employees tend to perform more efficiently at work as compared to dissatisfied  employees. The result indicates, there has been a positive relationship between job satisfaction  and employee performance, correlation coefficient came out to be 0.339 (p=0.01).

Keywords:

Contextual performance scale, Counterproductive work behaviour, Employee, Job  satisfaction, Performance, Task performance scale,