Washington: Employee job satisfaction is the key to a company’s successful performance, according to a new study. Numerous studies have linked general attitudes towards work to mood outside of work and health outcomes such as coronary heart disease.
However, psychological scientist James K. Harter of Gallup, Inc. and his colleagues found that employee perceptions of work conditions might also have a big impact on the bottom line of employing organizations.
In the study, the researchers examined data from more than 2,000 business units (e.g., retail stores, factories, sales offices) of ten companies.
The data consisted of employee satisfaction surveys, employee retention rates, customer loyalty, and financial performance of the organizations.
Analyses of the data were conducted to identify relationships between employee job satisfaction and outcome measures of the organizations.
The results indicate that employee work perceptions predict important organizational outcomes—if employees have positive perceptions of their jobs, their organizations benefit via higher employee retention, increased customer loyalty, and improved financial outcomes.
Interestingly, the analysis suggests that employee perceptions affect outcomes more than outcomes affect employee perceptions of their jobs.
“One implication is that changes in management practices that improve employee perceptions of specific work situation variables will increase business-unit outcomes, including financial outcomes,” noted the authors.
In addition, the researchers have offered that one way managers can help boost job satisfaction and help their organization may be to “clarify expectations for employees by helping employees see the ultimate outcomes the organization is working to achieve and how they play a role in achieving those outcomes.”
The study has been published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
ANI
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