Pressure for production, task difficulty, and the correlation between job satisfaction and job performance.

Investigated in an educational setting H. C. Triandis's hypothesis that pressure for production influences the correlation between job satisfaction and job performance. In a difficult course with a great deal of pressure, course satisfaction and expected grade on the part of the students (n = 25) were more highly correlated than in a course where pressure on the students (n = 67) was considerably less. This finding suggests that differences in production pressure and task difficulty may partially explain the variety of results obtained when researchers correlate job satisfaction with job performance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)