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2016
Mindfulness, job satisfaction and job performance: Mutual relationships and moderation effect
VACULÍK, Martin, Jana VYTÁSKOVÁ, Jakub PROCHÁZKA and Ladislav ZÁLIŠ
Basic information
Original name
Mindfulness, job satisfaction and job performance: Mutual relationships and moderation effect
Authors
VACULÍK, Martin (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jana VYTÁSKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jakub PROCHÁZKA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ladislav ZÁLIŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Brno, Smart and Efficient Economy: Preparation for the Future Innovative Economy, p. 148-156, 9 pp. 2016
Publisher
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Business and Management
Other information
Type of outcome
Proceedings paper
Field of Study
Management, administration and clerical work
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
electronic version available online
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/16:00095913
Organization
Fakulta sociálních studií – Repository – Repository
Keywords (in Czech)
mindfulness; pracovní výkon; pracovní spokojenost; dynamičnost práce; neuroticismus
Keywords in English
mindfulness; job performance; job satisfaction; dynamicity; neuroticism
Links
MUNI/A/1077/2015, interní kód Repo.
V originále
Purpose of the article: This article examines the relationship between mindfulness, job satisfaction and job performance. Methodology/methods: We used a self-report job performance questionnaire, a job satisfaction scale from the Job Diagnostic Survey and the Czech version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. We excluded 8 items from the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Observing subscale following suggestions of other authors who measured mindfulness in a population without meditation experience. The sample consists of 241 Czech employees. We did not focused on employees with an experience with mindfulness training and/or meditation. Scientific aim: We examined the mutual relationships between all three variables while specifically focusing on mindfulness as a possible moderator in the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. We also controlled the influence of neuroticism (NEO-FFI), job dynamicity and respondents’ sex. Findings: Job dynamicity, neuroticism and sex were weak predictors of job performance. Mindfulness had weak positive effect on job performance, too. However, mindfulness did not help to explain the variance in job performance beyond neuroticism, job dynamicity and sex. Mindfulness also had no relationship to job satisfaction. We did not find a significant relationship between job satisfaction and job performance and results did not support the hypothesis that mindfulness was a moderator of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. Conclusions: We extrapolate our findings to reflect on a potential utility of mindfulness training. For further research we would suggest exploring the relationship between mindfulness and job performance in an experiment using mindfulness training for individuals with a high level of neuroticism.
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