Impact of the job satisfaction on job performance of the temporary academic staff

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue X, October 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Impact of the job satisfaction on job performance of the temporary academic staff

P. G. T. N. Perera¹, Thesara V. P. Jayawardane^2
1 Assistant lecturer, Department of Social Statistics, University of Kelaniya
² Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Management, University of Moratuwa.

Abstract: Job satisfaction and job performance are the important phenomenon in human resource management in present world. The problem of this research is to find-out whether there is an impact on job satisfaction and dimension on job performance of the temporary employees working in the academic field of Sri Lanka. It will also investigate the relationship between the dimension of job performance and job satisfaction of the respondents as well as conduct a cross check of whether the former influences latter positive or negative in the long run. The research has been known for using a research framework with a pragmatic world view with survey strategy. This study has selected samples using stratified random sampling method and sample size has calculated using Taro Yamane method. 250 temporary academic staff members of the University of Kelaniya has been selected as the sample. This research is based on the analysis of primary data and data collected through structured questionnaire which was devel1oped based on measurements to find results to the research problem by analyzing the previous researches. The data analysis process includes number of methods such as frequency, reliability, descriptive, regression and correlation. The sub component named learning environment highly contributed towards the job satisfaction while the evaluation system is the lowest contributing factor for the variable named job satisfaction. Communication between the university and employees is the most affected component on the job performance while the learning environment becomes the second important component. Need of the employees are the third important component and the emotional satisfaction about the job is the least important component while the evaluation system is not affected significantly. Research has found that there is high impact of job satisfaction on job performance of temporary academic staff.

Key words: Academic staff, Job Performance, Job satisfaction, Temporary employees

I. INTRODUCTION

Job satisfaction is known for being one of the most crucial part of the human resource management in the sense of multidimensional part which currently is a burning topic in the business world. Job satisfaction is known for saying that the fabulous or a fabulousness of the employees are the most important part in the job. The nature of the environment of a person is very important because it is important to the life like a general life satisfaction. Employee performance is also recognized and contribute in the job performance of the employee in their workplace. It is thought as an essential component in the organizational success. The work production of the employee is known for increasing in the recent years due to the change in the work environment as

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