Productivity, Satisfaction and Involvement: A Brief Note on Some Conceptual Issues

Abstract

Increasing productivity is the major goal of every successful organisation, be it private or public, service or manufacturing. In order to achieve this goal, the organisation has to depend to a large extent on both covert and overt behaviours of its members. The covert behaviours of organisational members refer to such psychological phenomena as job satisfaction, involvement and other related attitudes and beliefs. The overt behaviours, on the other hand, refer to directly observable behaviours such as absenteeism, tardiness, and other forms of on‐the‐job behaviour. It is the task of organisational psychologists to identify these behaviours and establish specific causal relationships between these behaviours and productivity.

Citation

Kanungo, R.N. (1986), "Productivity, Satisfaction and Involvement: A Brief Note on Some Conceptual Issues", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 7 No. 5, pp. 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045088