Relationship between Job Involvement and Job Performance

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational behavior
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Introduction
In the current business scenario, job performance of the employees is one of the major
factor considerations for the contemporary business. This is due to the reason that the more will
be the job performance of the employees, the more will be the organizational effectiveness and
competitiveness in the market. One of the major factors being considered by the business
organizations in enhancing the productivity of the employees is increasing their job involvement.
If the employees are more involved in their respective job roles, they will be more motivated and
engaged and will perform better (Abdullah & Wan 2013). Job involvement is being given the
major focus in the contemporary human resource approach because it will determine the extent
to which the employees will perform better in the workplace. However, different authors have
given different views regarding the initiation of job involvement and its impact on the job
performance. They mainly differed in stating the ways of promoting the concept of job
involvement for the employees.
This essay will discuss about the relationship between the job involvement and job
performance along with the impact of it in the employee performance. All these elements will be
critically evaluated based on the views given by different authors.
Job involvement and performance
Prior to identification of different ways of initiating job involvement among the
employees, it is important to have the fair idea about the relationship between job involvement
and job performance. According to Scrima et al. (2014) increase in the job involvement enhances
the level of enhancements for the employees in their workplace. This is due to the reason that job
involvement refers to the extent to which the employees are getting engaged in their workplace.

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Thus, if the employees are getting more engaged in their workplace, then they will possess more
organizational citizenship and commitment, which will further increase the organizational
productivity. In addition, it is stated by Esfahani, Emami and Tajnesaei (2013) that level of
motivation among the employees will also get increased if they are more engaged in the
workplace. This is due to the reason that job involvement will only be effective only when the
employees are satisfied with their respective job roles and this successful implementation of the
job involvement among the employees will ensure that they are motivated with their job roles.
Thus, as per the authors, high level of motivation will ensure that performance of the employees
is also enhanced. Higher level of motivation will also ensure that employee related issues will be
less in the organizations. Thus, as per the authors, it is also important for the managers to ensure
the job involvement of the employees in order to have lower level of issues in place.
However, on the other hand, there are few counterarguments also being presented by
different authors such as Shantz et al. (2016). According to the authors, it is not obvious that job
involvement will lead to the increase in the performance of the employees. This is due to the
reason that job involvement of the employees can also be increased by coercion and negative
motivation. Thus, if the employees are being negatively motivated then they may be forced to
have more involvement in the workplace but their performance will not get influenced. In this
case, the authors have stated that it is important for the managers to ensure that not only the
employees are highly involved in their workplace but also have enhanced job performance.
Furthermore, it is stated by Jayawardana, O’Donnell and Jayakody (2013) that job performance
of the employees is also being determined by different external forces. Thus, job involvement is
not only the key factor in enhancing the job performance of the employees. It is also being stated
by the authors that in different cases, job involvement of the employees is high but their