Relationship between job satisfaction and Job Performance: A case study of Universities of Peshawar District (KPK) Pakistan

Abstract

Employee attitudes are imperative to management because they settle on the behavior of workers in the organization. The frequently held judgment is that “A satisfied worker is a fruitful worker”. A satisfied work force may generate agreeable feeling within the organization to perform well. Hence job satisfaction and commitment has become a major topic for research studies. The specific problem addressed in this study is to examine the impact of set of selected predictors for job satisfaction and on performance of academicians in higher education institutions (Universities) of Peshawar. Data were collected through a field survey using a questionnaire from 218 randomly selected academicians working in both (public and private) universities of Peshawar. Regression analysis revealed that there exists collectively positive highly correlation and positive significant impact of job satisfaction and job performance in academicians.

Key words: Job performance, supervision, coworker, environment, commitment