A qualitative and quantitative review of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance is provided. The qualitative review is organized around 7 models that characterize past research on the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. Although some models have received more support than have others, research has not provided conclusive confirmation or disconfirmation of any model, partly because of a lack of assimilation and integration in the literature. Research devoted to testing these models waned following 2 meta-analyses of the job satisfaction-job performance relationship. Because of limitations in these prior analyses and the misinterpretation of their findings, a new meta-analysis was conducted on 312 samples with a combined N of 54,417. The mean true correlation between overall job satisfaction and job performance was estimated to be .30. In light of these results and the qualitative review, an agenda for future research on the satisfaction-performance relationship is provided.

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The job satisfaction-job performance relationship: a qualitative and quantitative review.

The author systematically examines one of the important issues of information — establishing the market price. He introduces the concept of «search» — where a buyer wanting to get a better price, is forced to question sellers. The article deals with various aspects of finding the necessary information.

Economics of Information

行銷硏究 : Marketing research

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data

The acceptance of new information technologies by their intended users persists as an important issue for researchers and practitioners of information systems. Several models have been developed in the literature to facilitate understanding of the process by which new information technologies are adopted. This paper proposes a new construct that further illuminates the relationships explicit in the technology acceptance models and describes an operational measure for this construct that possesses desirable psychometric properties. The construct, personal innovativeness in the domain of information technology, is hypothesized to exhibit moderating effects on the antecedents as well as the consequences of individual perceptions about a new information technology. The construct was developed and validated in the context of the innovation represented by the World-Wide Web. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

A Conceptual and Operational Definition of Personal Innovativeness in the Domain of Information Technology

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Characteristics of the Heavy User of Fashionable Clothing

The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy

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Ronald E. Goldsmith

Papers

Have it your way: consumer attitudes toward personalized marketing

Characteristics of the Heavy User of Fashionable Clothing

The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy

The impact of social values on food-related attitudes

The etiology of the frugal consumer