The Effectiveness Of Job Satisfaction And Demographic Variables In Predicting Behavioral Intentions To Stay

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Download or read book Predicting Job Performance and Job Satisfaction written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of research has been conducted on the individual differences that predict job performance. However, less research has focused on the individual differences that may better equip employees to deal with stress-inducing situations. The current study explored the effects of polychronicity on job performance and job satisfaction. Polychronicity refers to an individual's preference for engaging in multiple tasks simultaneously, as well as the belief that this preference is the best way to get things accomplished. The current study also examined the effects of an individual's polychronicity on their interpretation of the stressor role overload, and how this impacts job performance. When individuals become overwhelmed by their work demands and feel as if they do not have the resources to deal with them, they experience role overload. The challenge-hindrance stressors framework suggests that an individual's interpretation of a stressor as either a challenge or a hindrance influences whether that stressor will have a negative or positive effect on their work. Individuals with more polychronic orientations may be more predisposed to interpret a stressor such as role overload in a more positive way, as a challenge. Researchers have suggested that individuals with more polychronic tendencies may be less likely to feel the stress of role overload. Such individuals may consequently also experience more job satisfaction as a result. The current study investigated the effects an individual's polychronic orientation has towards alleviating workplace stress and increasing job satisfaction and job performance. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to extend the research on employee characteristics such as polychronicity and the Big Five personality dimensions within a stressful environment. The current study utilized an online questionnaire through the Amazon Mechanical Turk service (MTurk). The sample for the present study was drawn from a diverse worker pool consisting of 100,000 users from over 100 different countries. The final sample size was 194 participants who completed the posted survey and received monetary compensation of $0.50. Correlations were used to explore relationships between the Big Five traits and job performance as well as the relationships between demographic variables and the variables of interest. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to test for the moderating effects of role overload on the polychronicity-job performance relationship and the polychronicity-job satisfaction relationship. The results indicated that polychronicity was significantly and positively related to job performance, job satisfaction, and role overload. Polychronicity was also found to be significantly positively related to Neuroticism. Exploratory analyses revealed that role overload moderated the relationship between polychronicity and subjective stress, and that polychronicity significantly accounted for variance in job satisfaction and job performance over and above the Big Five personality dimensions of Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism. The findings in this study have practical implications for management's motivational tactics and selection procedures. Future research could include an assessment of whether individuals are interpreting their stress as either a challenge or a hindrance, and it could include an assessment of other stressors that role overload is commonly paired with such as role ambiguity and role conflict.