C. K. Woodruff
ABSTRACT
An exploratory investigation was conducted to clarify the role of age, education level attained, and tenure as potential moderators of the relationship of job satisfaction and job performance for information systems personnel. Participants in an empirical study included 202 individuals from twelve computer centers.
No support was found for age, education level attained, and tenure as moderators. This lack of support extended beyond a summated measure of total job performance to each of the component performance measures: quantity of work, quality of work, job knowledge, job judgment, job initiative, adaptability, cooperation, and innovativeness. A small statistically significant relationship was found for these variables on job knowledge and job judgment.
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