Theories of Performance and Satisfaction: A Review

Toward a theory of task motivation and incentives

1968 • 2,345 citations

Employee attitudes and employee performance.

1955 • 990 citations

Validity Of Personality Measures In Personnel Selection

1965 • 595 citations

Job enlargement, individual differences, and worker responses.

1968 • 436 citations

Activation theory and task design

1966 • 333 citations

“Consideration,”“Initiating Structure,” and Organizational Criteria‐ a Review

1966 • 294 citations

A linear model of job satisfaction.

1965 • 286 citations

Instrumentality theory of work motivation: Some experimental results and suggested modifications.

1969 • 273 citations

Role of financial compensation in industrial motivation.

1966 • 272 citations

A path-goal approach to productivity.

1957 • 265 citations

The Hawthorne Studies: A Radical Criticism

1967 • 259 citations

Antecedent attitudes of effective managerial performance

1967 • 246 citations

The influence of level of performance on managerial style: an experimental object-lesson in the ambiguity of correlational data

1968 • 208 citations

Sex differences in job satisfaction.

1964 • 192 citations

An empirical investigation of the motivational determinants of task performance: Interactive effects between instrumentality—valence and motivation—ability

1967 • 190 citations

Expectancy theory predictions of work effectiveness

1968 • 174 citations

Effects of changes in job-satisfaction levels on employee turnover.

1968 • 141 citations

Equity theory as a predictor of productivity and work quality.

1968 • 138 citations

The Dollar Criterion—Applying the Cost Accounting Concept to Criterion Construction

1950 • 132 citations

A note on the criterion.

1963 • 131 citations

Job satisfaction, job performance, and situational characteristics.

1961 • 130 citations

Dimensional problems of criteria.

1956 • 129 citations

The motivation to Work Among Finnish Supervisors

1965 • 126 citations

Job satisfaction and turnover in a female clerical population.

1966 • 110 citations

Use of importance as a weighting component of job satisfaction.

1968 • 102 citations

Effects of community characteristics on measures of job satisfaction.

1966 • 91 citations

AN ANALYSIS OF STUDIES CRITICAL OF THE MOTIVATOR‐HYGIENE THEORY¹

1967 • 89 citations

THE VALIDATION OF SELECTION TESTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE DYNAMIC CHARACTER OF CRITERIA

1960 • 84 citations

JOB SATISFACTION: ISSUES AND PROBLEMS¹

1966 • 83 citations

Task success, task popularity, and self-esteem as influences on task liking.

1968 • 80 citations

3. PRODUCTIVITY AND JOB SATISFACTION

1960 • 72 citations

A criticism of studies comparing item-weighting methods.

1956 • 67 citations

A study of attitude change in the preretirement period.

1964 • 59 citations

Social Reference Basis of Job Satisfaction: The Case of Manual Workers

1962 • 57 citations

An examination of the effect of wage inequity in the hourly condition

1968 • 56 citations

On Choice in Labor Markets

1956 • 55 citations

Supervisory Style and Productivity: Review and Theory¹

1966 • 55 citations

Criterion-Centered Research

1964 • 51 citations

MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS AMONG SUPERVISORS IN THE UTILITY INDUSTRY¹

1963 • 49 citations

A REPLICATED STUDY OF JOB SATISFACTION DIMENSIONS

1968 • 39 citations

A critique and experimental design for the study of the relationship between productivity and job satisfaction.

1959 • 38 citations

DEGREE OF JOB FIT AS A MODERATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB PERFORMANCE AND JOB SATISFACTION

1969 • 36 citations

Empirical research on the bases and correlates of managerial motivation: A review of the literature.

1968 • 36 citations

Functional Specialization and Work Attitudes

1969 • 31 citations

MANAGERS' PERCEPTIONS OF NEEDS AND NEED SATISFACTIONS AS A FUNCTION OF INTERACTIONS AMONG ORGANIZATIONAL VARIABLES

1968 • 24 citations

AGGREGATE AND INDIVIDUAL PREDICTABILITY OF THE TWO‐FACTOR THEORY OF JOB SATISFACTION

1970 • 24 citations

Economic Interest and the Hawthorne Researches

1965 • 23 citations

THE OCCUPATIONAL REFERENCE GROUP—A NEGLECTED CONCEPT IN EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE STUDIES

1961 • 22 citations

Effect of personal characteristics on relationships between attitudes and job performance.

1961 • 15 citations

A further analysis of the relations among job performance and situational variables.

1962 • 15 citations

Role Satisfactions and Length of Life in a Closed Population

1962 • 13 citations

Vocational Interests Of Effective Managers: A Review Of The Literature¹

1965 • 12 citations

THE PREDICTION CEILING

1969 • 9 citations