Reexamining the Illusory Correlation: The Complexity of the Satisfaction - Performance Relationship

• Main Authors: Schleicher, Deidra J., Watt, John D., Greguras, G. J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2666; https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/89/1/165/
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The present article argues that organizational researchers tend to adopt an overly simplistic conceptualization and operationalization of job satisfaction (and job attitudes in general). Specifically, past research has failed to examine the affective-cognitive consistency (ACC) of job attitudes and...