1、1800 英文单词, 1 万英文字符 , 中文 3050 字 文献出处: Smayling M, Miller H. Job satisfaction and job performance at the internship levelJ. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 2012, 9(1): 27-33. Job Satisfaction and Job Performance at the Internship Level Miles Smayling, Howard Miller Industrial psychol
2、ogists and management theorists have been examining the linkage between job satisfaction and job performance for at least fifty years. The results have been, at best, tenuous. The effects of age, gender, personality and environment have been considered without yielding concrete resolution. Since an
3、internship or similar work integrated learning experience might well be a career starting point, a study was conducted to determine what, if any, relationship exists between satisfaction and performance at this stage. Assessment of job performance for student interns is an accepted practice for work
4、 integrated learning operations. This paper examines the results of 359 internships over a period of years. Consideration was given to the gender of the intern and their supervisor and the key factors that interns and their supervisors tended to focus on in their evaluations. Gender did not seem to
5、play a role in the students view of the value of various work characteristics. The effect of moderating variables were considered when examining the satisfaction-performance relationship. Although the use of such moderators did alter the results, their effect was fairly small and did not have a mean
6、ingful impact on the conclusions drawn. A clear finding emerged suggesting that job satisfaction is more highly related to job performance in situations where the intern and their supervisor are of the same gender. INTRODUCTION A recent Conference Board report (Barrington and Franco, 2010) stated that job satisfaction had reached its lowest point ever reported. The idea that so many were workers discontent would be troubling enough, but, the further concern that such sentiment might affect p