Organizational Tenure and Job Performance: Role of Continuance Commitment and Job Characteristics

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 13412
Author(s):  
Nishant Uppal
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Organizational Tenure

Uncovering curvilinearity in the organizational tenure-job performance relationship

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1552-1570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishant Uppal
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moderation Effects ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Organizational Tenure ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to posit a curvilinear relationship between organizational tenure and various facets of job performance. So far, theoretical explanations of such curvilinearity have been inconclusive and ambiguous. The current study draws from literature on organizational commitment to present an additional psychoeconomic explanation for curvilinearity. Further, it brings together job design, job stage, and conservation resource models to investigate moderation effects of motivational job characteristics on the organizational tenure-job performance relationship. Design/methodology/approach It is a longitudinal field study at two time periods using a sample of employees (n=679) in 19 job profiles from 13 different public sector organizations. Findings The current study found a mediated curvilinear relationship between organizational tenure and job performance from continuance commitment. The data show moderation effects of motivational job characteristics on the mediated curvilinear organizational tenure-job performance relationship. Originality/value Prior research based on industrial and business organizations provides substantial evidence to expect a curvilinear relationship between organizational tenure and job performance. That is, after an employee has spent a considerable amount of time in an organization and learned virtually all aspects of the job, further organizational tenure may cease to produce additional job performance improvements. However, scholars predicting curvilinear relationship have focused predominately on empirical verification with inconclusive and ambiguous theoretical explications. Therefore, the aim of the present study is twofold. First, it attempts to describe the ambiguous relationship between organizational tenure and job performance by examining the mechanism behind curvilinearity. Second, it examines motivational job characteristics as possible moderators that may affect the relationship.

scholarly journals Job Characteristics' Causal Effects on Individual Job Performance Perceptions and Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-86
Author(s):  
Metin KAYA ◽  
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Halil DEMIRER ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
And Task

This study aims to reveal the dimensions of job characteristics' causal effects on the dimensions of job performance perception and the mediating role of extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction in this relationship. All the variables are examined for individual-organization interaction at the individual level. Primary research data were gathered by using a structured questionnaire that included valid and reliable scales, namely Job Characteristics Inventory, Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire, and The Job performance quality scale. The sample of the study consists of 472 employees randomly chosen from five private and public hospitals in Turkey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses are used for factor validation. Path analysis and bootstrap analyses are used to detect direct and mediating effects on a path model using the structural equation modeling technique. Findings revealed that skill variety and friendship have a positive causal effect on compliance and task performance. Friendship, skill variety, and autonomy have a positive causal effect on job satisfaction. Internal job satisfaction has a positive causal influence on compliance, contextual, and task performance. Friendship, skill variety, and autonomy's causal effects on compliance, contextual, and task performance are mediated by intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction.

The link between transformational leadership and work-related performance: moderated-mediating roles of meaningfulness and job characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Hyun Han ◽  
Eunjung Grace Oh ◽  
Sung “Pil” Kang
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Job Meaningfulness

PurposeBased on the job characteristics theory (Oldham and Hackman, 2010), the authors highlighted the mediating role of job meaningfulness as a critical psychological state. Employees' positive perception of job meaningfulness could maximize organizational positive outcomes based on task orientation and trustful relationship-based satisfying behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to examine the structural relations among transformational leadership, job characteristics, job meaningfulness and task-related job performance. The conceptual model of this paper is developed based on the theoretical foundations for assessing mediating and moderating path relations among the exogenous and endogenous variables.Design/methodology/approachBased on the research questions with literature review, the research framework was developed to show the moderated mediating mechanism of the link between transformational leadership and in-role performance. Data analyses for hypothesis testing were conducted by Hayes' PROCESS macro-based hierarchical regression.FindingsUnderstanding how organizations can optimally design a job based on job characteristics and helping employees maintain psychological states having meaningfulness and responsibility for outcomes are critical. This paper calls attention to how job characteristics and an individual's meaningfulness of work embedded in a given job play a role in influencing job performance.Originality/valueThis study provides a snapshot for examining the job characteristic model on the link between leadership and job performance. By using process analysis (Hayes, 2013), this study examined the moderating role of job characteristics and mediating role of meaningfulness at work in the link of leadership–performance.

Employee job performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1087-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neetu Choudhary ◽  
M. Muzamil Naqshbandi ◽  
P.J. Philip ◽  
Rajender Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Management Ability ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of emotion management ability of leaders on employee job performance by highlighting the mediating role of employee perception of job characteristics. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses were developed and tested using multi-source data collected from 65 dyads of heads of department and their subordinates. Findings Results show that leaders’ emotion management ability relates positively to employee job performance, and that this relationship is mediated by employees’ perception of job characteristics. Research limitations/implications Cross-sectional data were used to test the hypotheses. Generalizability of the findings is limited as the sample is taken from only one industry in India. Originality/value The findings contribute to HRM and leadership literature. The study has implications for jobs that require a high degree of interpersonal interaction with subordinates. Unique value also lies in the context of the study as this study is one of the first to explore the phenomenon in India.

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