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Job design
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the influence of emotional intelligence on job performance and job satisfaction as well as the mediating role of job satisfaction in relation between emotional intelligence and job performance among administrative employees of the University of Jordan.
Abstract: Recent research findings are accumulating evidence that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is associated positively with important work manners. However, the research on Emotional Intelligence is mainly conducted in business field and in western countries; therefore there is a shortage of research on Emotional Intelligence in the context of public sector in Jordan. The aim of this study is to explore the influence of Emotional Intelligence on job performance and job satisfaction as well as the mediating role of job satisfaction on job performance among the administrative employees of the University of Jordan. The present study is based on Mayer and Salovey’s (2000) ability model of Emotional Intelligence. A sample consisted of 354 employees from the University of Jordan who completed self-report questionnaire. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used in order to test the proposed hypotheses. The research found that Emotional Intelligence is positively correlated with job performance and job satisfaction. The findings of this study also confirm the mediatory role of job satisfaction in relationship between Emotional Intelligence and job performance. It is suggested that Emotional Intelligence can be used to predict job performance and job satisfaction, therefore the understanding of Emotional Intelligence theory and its applications can be promoted for managerial and human resource practices throughout public sector organizations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed interactive relationships between job characteristics, psychological states and worker motivation, and tested the utility of the JDS to diagnose factors affecting teachers' motivation in a job diagnostic survey.
Abstract: Summary The Job Characteristics Model of Motivation, developed by Hackman and Oldham, proposed interactive relationships between job characteristics, psychological states and worker motivation. The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) has provided a useful diagnostic tool for business settings. This project tested the utility of the JDS to diagnose factors affecting teachers’ motivation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, two theories that attempt to explain differences in job satisfaction: job characteristics theory (Hackman & Oldham, 1976) and social information processing theory (Salancik & Pfeffer, 1978) were simultaneously tested using data collected from the civilian employees of the public works division at a U.S. military base.
Abstract: This study simultaneously tested 2 theories that attempt to explain differences in job satisfaction: job characteristics theory (Hackman & Oldham, 1976) and social information processing theory (Salancik & Pfeffer, 1978). The theories were tested using data collected from the civilian employees of the public works division at a U.S. military base. The results indicated that individuals' social environments had significant effects upon their attitudes. Multiple social networks were used to operationalize individuals' social environments. The results also suggested that job characteristics had an independent main effect upon job satisfaction, in addition to the effects of the social environment. Based on prior research, employees' past experience and self-monitoring were tested as moderators of the effects of the social environment, and growth need strength was tested as a moderator of the effects of job characteristics upon job satisfaction. Only self-monitoring was found to have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between information from the social environment and job satisfaction, and growth need strength had no significant moderating effect.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors address this research gap by referring to the four key dimensions of culture defined by Hofstede and seven top drivers of job satisfaction, and find that job characteristics' impacts vary significantly between countries, while others prove to be independent of national context.
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TL;DR: Employees facing both high job demands and low job control were less likely than other employees to view improving safety as part of their role orientation, and safety citizenship role definition of employees with high job control was buffered from the influence of highjob demands.
Abstract: This study investigated job demands and job control as predictors of safety citizenship role definition, that is, employees' role orientation toward improving workplace safety Data from a survey of 334 trackside workers were framed in the context of R A Karasek's (1979) job demands-control model High job demands were negatively related to safety citizenship role definition, whereas high job control was positively related to this construct Safety citizenship role definition of employees with high job control was buffered from the influence of high job demands, unlike that of employees with low job control, for whom high job demands were related to lower levels of the construct Employees facing both high job demands and low job control were less likely than other employees to view improving safety as part of their role orientation
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