Relationship between employees’ performance and job satisfaction In the Libyan banking sector

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Organizations both in the private and public sectors across the globe rely on their workforce for optimum productivity which will, in turn, result in organizational efficiency. In the present case, the need for ensuring employee job satisfaction becomes a matter of necessity for every organization. Nevertheless, studies have been showed by numerous researchers and scholars in this area; there is however the need to conduct more studies on job satisfaction and performance of an employee since the employees is believed to be an indispensable part of an organization. Consequently, these study objectives to inspect the relationship between job satisfaction and employees’ performance in the Libyan banking sector. Dissatisfaction is believed to be one of the main factors that demotivate and demoralize employees in the workplace which can result in lower productivity thereby affecting the overall performance of the organization. Consequently, an aggregate of one hundred and twenty questionnaires was distributed staff of banks based on systematic random sampling and data collected is analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The outcome of the analysis depicts that there is a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction and employee performance in the Libyan banking sector. The study will serve as a policy guide to the management of the Libyan banking sector in areas relating to employee performance improvement through job satisfaction and it will also further make an impetus the field of organizational behavior and human resource management.

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• Job satisfaction

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