The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance

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,