Affectivity, Job Performance and Job Satisfaction Relationship : Does Job Satisfaction Mediates the Relationship between Dispositional Affectivity and Job Performance?

ISBN-13: 9783639134308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 72 str.

Bahar Öz

Opis

This book is about a study exploring the relationship between dispositional affectivity and job performance under the potential mediating effects of job satisfaction. The study was conducted in three phases. In Phase I, the scale development phase, a teaching assistant evaluation form (AEF) was developed by collecting job analytic information from teaching assistants (TAs) and critical incidents from faculty members. In the second phase of the study, the pilot study, factor structure of the AEF was examined using principle component analyses. Results yielded two factors underlying the AEF. The first factor was named task performance; the second factor was named contextual performance. In the third phase, the main study, hypotheses were tested by gathering dispositional affectivity and job satisfaction data from TAs, and performance evaluation data from the instructors whom the TAs had worked with during the previous semester. Results indicated that positive affectivity (PA) predicted job satisfaction; and both PA and job satisfaction seemed to have suppressed each other in their relationships with contextual performance.

O autorze

Bahar Öz holds a MS degree in industrial and organizational
(I/O) psychology. She has been continuing her PhD studies at the
University of Helsinki - H. Canan Sümer is a professor at the
Psychology Department of Middle East Technical University. She
received her PhD in I/O psychology from Kansas State University,
in 1996.