Organisational Behaviour: Job Involvement and Job Performance Review

This literature review examines the relationship between job involvement and job performance, crucial aspects of organizational behavior. It defines job involvement as the psychological and emotional extent to which an employee participates in their work and job performance as the assessment of an individual's performance in a role. The review discusses the importance and consequences of job involvement, highlighting its impact on employee motivation, productivity, and retention. It also explores the role of organizations in fostering job involvement through empowerment, information sharing, knowledge contribution, and reward systems. The review concludes that higher job involvement is directly proportional to job performance and that organizations need to implement practices that enhance employee engagement to improve overall performance and revenue. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

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Literature review: Job Involvement and its relationship with Job Performance
Introduction
The term organizational behavior can be defined as the study of interaction of employees
in a group. This study is generally applied in order to create a highly efficient business
organization. The relationship between job involvement and its relationship with job
performance can be considered to be a highly crucial aspect of organizational behavior. Job
involvement can be defined as the physiological as well as emotional extent to which an
employee participates in his work, profession and economy. Top performers are found to be
engaged in their work and possess high job involvement. When it comes to job performance of
the employees, it can be defined as the assessment of an individual to perform well in a job. Over
the years of several studies have been conducted in order to understand the relation between job
involvement as well as job performance of the employees. In the following paragraph, review of
relevant scholarly literatures associated with the above mentioned topic will be conducted.
Discussion
Importance of Job involvement
According to Ho, Wong and Lee (2011), Job involvement can be defined as the state of
physiological identification with the work that is, the degree to which the job is considered to be
the central part of the employee’s personality. From organizational perspective, job involvement
is regarded as the key to unlock motivation of the employees as well as enhance productivity.
Ho, Wong and Lee (2011) stated that job involvement is comprised of a key to performance,
motivation, satisfaction as well as personal growth within the workplace. It contributes to the
effectiveness, morale as well as productivity by deeply engaging the employees into their activity

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and thus enhancing its experience as well as meaningfulness. Christian, Garza and Slaughter
(2011) stated that effective job involvement takes place when the job develops the potential to
enhance the physiological needs of the employees that includes reorganization, achievement,
security and meaning. Fu and Deshpande (2014) opined that job involvement possess the
potential to enhance the work performance of the employees by proving them with the
motivation to exert greater effort along with using their creativity to some issues associated with
day to day work effectively. The benefits of job involvement can be considered partly as a result
of personality as well as characteristic of the employee and partly o the job design, facilities,
behavior of the supervisor. For instance individuals who possess certain personality trait that
includes need for achievement, internal locus of control and work ethic endorsement are more
likely to have high job involvement. When it comes to organizational favors job profiles that are
effectively designed, organizations that contains efficient Human resource, workplace ethics,
corporate policies, effective leave structure and work friendly environment. Naderi Anari (2012),
stated that among all these factors, job design factors appear to possess a stronger influence on
job involvement of the employees for individuals who posses stronger drive to satisfy
psychological needs of higher order.
Consequences of Job Involvement
The point of concern in job involvement can be considered as the ultimate consequences
of this occurrence that can be explained that if the employees put forth considerable efforts for
the attainment of the personal as well as organizational objectives. This leads to more
productivity and the employee will ultimately retain with the company. In contrast, employees
who possess lower degree of involvement are most likely to obtain lower job satisfaction are
more inclined towards living the organization. Altaf and Awan (2011) stated that employees who

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posses lower job involvement, invest their energy on activities that are not beneficial for the
organization or prefers not to invest their energy. Thus, higher number of lower- job involved
employees posses the potentiality to reduce the productivity of the organization. This in turn,
reduces the revenue of the organization. Not only this, employees who are not job involved
demonstrate lack of loyalty or commitment towards the organization. Hippel, Kalokerinos and
Henry (2013) have found that the less job involved employees are more licitly to resign the
organization. Job performance I found to have a vital effect on different import outcomes. When
it comes to job performance Wong and Laschinger (2013) stated that varied work behavior of the
staffs can b defined as the major consequences of job involvement. Thus it can be hypothesized
that work environment does impose impact on the motivation as well as effort of the employees.
According to Dane and Brummel (2014) the population correlation is non significant between
the job involvement as well as the overall performance of the employees.
Operational Definition of Job Involvement
A debate exists between different researchers about the importance of job involvement of
the employees for the success of the organization as well as for retaining the staffs by
diminishing the intention to leave. However, the question arises about the role of the
organizations to help the employees to get more satisfied wit their work and get involved. In
order to answer the question Lu, Barriball, Zhang and While ( 2012) presented some major
practices that possess the potential to enhance involvement level of the employees. They
proposed 4 elements for making the employees more involved in the job and demonstrate more
loyalty to the organizations.
Empowerment:

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Empowerment can be defined as the degree of decision making that enhances the feeling
of being involved with the organization. Empowering the employees not only enhances their
confidence, but also enhances their loyalty towards the organization.
Information
Information refers to data about the quantity as well as quality of business operations like
unit outputs, costs and consumer reactions. Effective information sharing helps the employees to
become more informed about various aspects of the institution.
Knowledge
Knowledge is defined as the level an employee can reach after gaining information from
the organization. Enhanced knowledge eases the work of the employees and thus provides them
with the opportunity to perform difficult task and thus enhance their competency level.
Reward
The rewarding system is considered to be a crucial tool the employees with extrinsic motivation.
Profile of the Job-Involved Individual
Le et al. (2011) stated that employees with high job involvement posses some common
characteristics. For instance, when it come to personality traits, job involved employees are
found to be high in both internal as well as external motivation. They possess high self esteem as
well as workplace ethics. However, when it comes to demographics, employees with higher job
involvement do not depend on factors like age, education, gender and education. However, Ho
Wong and Lee (2011) argued that salary as well as education are the two demographic factors

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which is directly proportional to job involvement. High compensation acts an extrinsic
motivation for a good number of employees that possess the potential to enhance their loyalty as
well as commitment towards their job. Job involved employees finds their official activity
meaningful as well as challenging. If a major challenge is encountered by an job involved
employee, instead of trying to avoid or pass of the issue, try to solve it with feasible techniques
and gain intrinsic motivation after solving the issue. They participate in the setting of
performance standards as well as to maintain positive relationship with supervisors who provide
them with ample feedback on their performance. Apart from being committed to their immediate
job, job involved employees are found to be strongly committed to work in general along with
career achievement and advancement.
Christian Garza and Slaughter ( 2011 )opined that employees who posses high job
involvement are more likely to obtain high job satisfaction, compared to employees with lower
job involvement. He also added that these employees find the content of the work intrinsically
satisfying. Job satisfaction of highly job involved employees prevails even when their supervisor
lacks communicative skills or lacks leadership skills. They tend to possess strong affectionate
bond to their official work as well as for the organization they are working for. As a result of
this, highly job involved employees are le likely to undergo resignation. When it comes to side
effects of job involvement Fu, W. and Deshpande (2014) stated that job involvement generally
do not posses systematic negative side effects that includes physical, social as well as cytological
issues. However, unsystematic or overly involved employees often tend to destroy their work life
balance which in turn results in somatic health issues, and work-family conflicts. Le et al. (2011)
stated that no connection exists between personal life satisfaction and job involvement. Neither
does job involved employees are highly involved towards activities outside work.

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Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be concluded that job involvement is directly
proportional to the job performance of the employees. Several personal as well as organizational
factors are found to be responsible for the job involvement of the employees. Employee
engagement and involvement enhances the revenue of the organization by enhancing their
productivity. On the other than lower job involvement possess the capability of reducing the
performance of the organization. Finally, it has been found that organizations also need to
involve major practices like empowerment, effective information sharing, contributing
knowledge and rewarding system in order to enhance job involvement of the employees.

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