Lai Chee Yee
Faculty of Business, Raffles University Iskandar
Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Email: cheeyeelai950@gmail.com
Abstract
Employee’s satisfaction and performance is important and necessary in an organization. A satisfied employee would have higher performance and it will increase the productivity. A university is the place where deliver knowledge to students and train them to be the expert in various fields. Understanding academics job satisfaction is necessary in the university to deliver superior performance for university. Therefore, job satisfaction and performance become popular research topic. The main purpose of this study is to investigates the relationship between job satisfaction factors and job performance among academic staffs in Malaysian private universities. In this study, job satisfaction discusses in extrinsic and intrinsic factors that are working condition, job security, remuneration, relationship with colleagues, recognition, and advancement. Job performance will look at the text performance and contextual performance. This study is a descriptive research and survey approach that used to observe the correlation among job satisfaction factors and job performance. Job satisfaction factors is the independent variable and job performance is the dependent variable. This study uses 5 point Likert scale questionnaire to analyse the independent variables and dependent variables of academic staff. Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression are the data analysis techniques that used to assess the relationship among independent and dependent variables.
Key word: job satisfaction factors, job performance, academic staff, private university, relationship
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