Critical Glance upon the Performance and Well-Being of Employees of Saudi Public Organizations with an Analytical Perspective — Oak Academic Publishing
Research ArticleOpen AccessGoogle Scholar indexed
Critical Glance upon the Performance and Well-Being of Employees of Saudi Public Organizations with an Analytical Perspective
College of Business & Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1 College of Business & Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
This study aids Saudi Arabian public organizations in identifying and solving problems with employee performance. The study’s findings are critical to the Saudi Arabian public administration, management and employees. The administration can use these findings to make decisions such as assigning work, promoting employees, transferring them, and laying them off. The success of various selection techniques, training programs, and compensation systems can also be assessed using performance data. Additionally, managers will assist their employees in becoming more productive by receiving better personal performance ratings. These help employees know where they stand, pave the road for a change, encourage self-improvement, and recognize their accomplishments for each employee. This study measures 3 C’s univariate behavioral approach variables such as corporate commitments, communication and collaboration. Random sampling method was adopted to collect the data from 1000 Saudi employees and overseas workers out of which only 82% were returned. Whereas out of 82% only 79.3% were deemed to be, appropriate for examination. Data were analyzed and examined using the latest version of SPSS 1.0.0.1406 by using a set of statistical methods including Coefficient Correlation, Regression, Cronbach’s alpha, means, standard deviation, multiple and simple linear regression. Furthermore, according to Frechette and Wertheim, “performance affects the very essence of the individual’s connection or ‘affective commitment’ with the organization, and therefore can play a central role in deciding the level whereby the individual’s short-and long-term needs are fulfilled through participation in the organization” . These research findings serve as a toll for improving job satisfaction among employees. The effectiveness of government employees directly influences the efficiency of the government section and, as a result, on the achievement of the country’s economic goals and the nation’s growth.
KeywordsEmployee Well-BeingPerformance of EmployeesPublic SectorSaudi Organizations
Adam, J. S. (1965). Inequity in Social Exchange. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2, 267-299. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60108-2
Al-Damour, H., & Awamleh, R. A. (2002). Effects of Transactional and Transformational Leadership Styles of Sales Managers on Job Satisfaction and Self-Perceived Performance of Salespeople: A Study of Jordanian Manufacturing Public Shareholding Companies. Dirasat: Administrative Sciences Series, 29, 247-261.
Al-Khaldi, M. A., & Wallace R. S. (1999). The Influence of Attitudes on Personal Computer Utilization among Knowledge Workers: The Case of Saudi Arabia. Information & Management, 36, 185-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-7206(99)00017-8
Allardt, E. (1993). Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to Swedish Model of Welfare Research. In M. Nussbaum, & A. Sen (Eds.), The Quality of Life (pp. 1-8). Oxford Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.1093/0198287976.003.0008
Bakke, E., & Sitter, N. (2005). Patterns of Stability: Part Competition and Strategy in Central Europe since 1989. Party Politics, 11, 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068805049779
Bies, R. J., & Moag, J. (1986). Interactional Justice: Communication Fairness Criteria. In R. Lewicki, B. Sheppard, & M. Bazerman (Eds.), Research on Negotiation in Organizations (pp. 43-55). JAI Press.
Bonache, J., Suutari, V., & Brewster, C. (2001). A Review and Agenda for Expatriate HRM. Thunderbird International Management Review, 42, 3-21.
Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O. L. H., & Ng, K. Y. (2001). Justice at the Millennium: A Meta-Analytic Review of 25 Years of Organizational Justice Research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 425-445. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.425
Cropanzano, R., & Greenberg, J. (1997). Progress in Organizational Justice: Tunneling through the Maze. In C. L. Cooper, & I. T. Robertson (Eds.), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 317-372). Wiley.
Cropanzano, R., Byrne, Z., Bobocel, D. R., & Rupp, D. (2001). Moral Virtues, Fairness Heuristics, Social Entities, and Other Denizens of Organizational Justice. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 58, 164-209. https://doi.org/10.1006/jvbe.2001.1791
Currie, S. (2001). Exploring the Relationship between HR and Middle Managers. Human Resource Management Journal, 11, 53-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2001.tb00045.x
Dadfar, A., Norberg, R., Helander, E., Schuster, S., & Zufferey, A. (2003). Intercultural Aspects of Doing Business with Saudi Arabia. Linkoping University.
De Joy, D. M., Wilsom, M. G., Vandenberg, R. J., McGrath-Higgins, A. L., & Griffin-Blake, C. S. (2010). Assessing the Impact of Healthy Work Organization Intervention. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 83, 139-165. https://doi.org/10.1348/096317908X398773
Deluga, R. J. (1994). Supervisor Trust-Building, Leader-Member Exchange, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 67, 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8325.1994.tb00570.x
Fisher, K. (2003). Demystifying Critical Reflection: Defining Criteria for Assessment. Higher Education Research & Development, 22, 313-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/0729436032000145167
Folger, R., & Cropanzano, R. (1998). Organizational Justice and Human Resource Management. Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452225777
Folger, R., & Konovsky, M. A. (1989). Effects of Procedural and Distributive Justice on Reactions to Pay Raise Decisions. Academy of Management Journal, 32, 115-130.
Fried, E. I. (2017). The 52 Symptoms of Major Depression: Lack of Content Overlap among Seven Common Depression Scales. Journal of Affective Disorders, 208, 191-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.10.019
Greenberg, J. (1987). A Taxonomy of Organizational Justice Theories. The Academy of Management Review, 12, 9-22. https://doi.org/10.2307/257990
Greenberg, J. (1993). Justice and Organizational Citizenship: A Commentary on the State of the Science. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 6, 249-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01419448
Hobfoll, S. E. (2002). Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation. Review of General Psychology, 6, 307-324. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.6.4.307
Imaginário, S., Vieira, L. S., & Jesus, S. (2013). Subjective Well-Being and Social Integration of College Students. Journal of Toursim, Sustainability and Well-Being, 1, 215-223.
Judge, T. A., & Watanabe, S. (1993). Another Look at the Job Satisfaction-Life Satisfaction Relationship. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 939-948. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.78.6.939
Judge, T. A., Thoresen, C. J., Bono, J. E., & Patton, G. K. (2001). The Job Satisfaction-Job Performance Relationship. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 376-407. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.127.3.376
Kersley, B., Alpin, C., Forth, J., Bryson, A., Bewley, H., Dix, G., & Oxenbridge, S. (2006). Inside the Workplace: First Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey. 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey, Department of Trade and Industry. https://doi.org/10.1037/e589592011-001
Kraybill, D. B. (2003). The Upside-Down Kingdom. Herald PR.
Leung, K., & Stephan, W. G. (2001). Social Justice from a Cultural Perspective. In D. Matsumoto (Ed.), The Handbook of Culture and Psychology (pp. 375-410). Oxford University Press.
Liang, S. W., Chen, R. N., Liu, L. L., Li, X. G., Chen, J. B., Tang, S. Y., & Zhao, J. B. (2020). The Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Guangdong College Students: The Difference between Seeking and Not Seeking Psychological Help. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article No. 2231. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02231
Madhi, S. T., & Barrientos, A. (2003). Suadisation and Employment in Saudi Arabia. Career Development International, 8, 70-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/13620430310465471
Masterson, S. S., Lewis, K. Goldman, B. M., & Susan, M. (2000). Integrating Justice and Social Exchange: The Differing Effects of Fair Procedures and Treatment on Work Relationships. The Academy of Management Journal, 43, 738-748. https://doi.org/10.2307/1556364
McDowall, A., & Fletcher, C. (2004). Employee Development: An Organizational Justice Perspective. Personnel Review, 33, 8-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480410510606
Niehoff, B. P., & Moorman, R. H. (1993). Justice as a Mediator of the Relationship between Methods of Monitoring and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Academy of Management Journal, 36, 527-556. https://doi.org/10.5465/256591
Nussbaum, M. C. (2001). Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511840715
Peccei, R., & Voorde. K. V. (2019). Human Resource Management Well-Being Performance Research Revisited: Past, Present and Future. Human Resource Management Journal, 29, 539-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12254
Rahman, S. A. A., Wahiba, M., Ragheb, M. A. S., & Ragab, A. A. (2021). The Effect of Organizational Trust on Employee’s Performance through Organizational Commitment as a mediating Variable (Applied Study on Mobile Phone Companies in Egypt. Open Access Journal, 8, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1107806
Sadi, M. A., & Al-Buraey, M. (2009). A Framework of the Implementation Process: The Case of Saudization. International Management Review, 5, 70-84.
Sen, A. (1993). Capability and Well-Being. In M. Nussabum, & A. Sen (Eds.), The Quality of Life (pp. 30-53). Oxford Scholarship. https://doi.org/10.1093/0198287976.003.0003
Stecher, M. D., & Rosse, J. G. (2005). The Distributive Side of Interactional Justice: The Effects of Interpersonal Treatment on Emotional Arousal. Journal of Managerial Issues, 17, 229-246.
Suliman, A. M. T. (2007). Links between Justice, Satisfaction and Performance in the Workplace: A Survey in the UAE and Arabic Context. Journal of Management Development, 26, 294-311. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710710740075
Tremblay, M., & Roussel, R. (2001). Modelling the Role of Organizational Justice: Effects on Satisfaction and Unionization Propensity of Canadian. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 12, 717-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/713769672
Van Veldhoven, M. (2005). Financial Performance and the Long Term Link with HR Practices Work Climate ad Job Stress. Human Resource Management Journal, 15, 30-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2005.tb00294.x
Vanhala, S., & Tuomi, K. (2006). HRM, Company Performance and Employee Well-Being. Management Review, 17, 241-255. https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2006-3-241
Warr, P. (2002). The Study of Well-Being, Behaviour and Attitudes. In P. Warr (Ed.), Psychology at Work (pp. 1-25). Penguin Press.
Warr, P. B. (1987). Work, Unemployment, and Mental Health. Clarendon Press.
World Health Organization (1946). Summary Report on Proceedings, Minutes and Final Acts of the International Health Conference Held in New York from 19 June to 22 July 1946.
Wright, T. A., & Cropanzano, R. (2000). Psychological Well-Being and Job Satisfaction as Predictors of Job Performance. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5, 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.5.1.84