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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2022.vol9.no5.0157

An Integrated Approach to Linking Job Love with Contextual Factors and Performance: An Empirical Study from Pakistan  

BIBI, Naila (Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus)
SAEED, Bilal Bin (Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus)
AFRIDI, Muhammad Asim (Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.9, no.5, 2022 , pp. 157-169 More about this Journal
Abstract
Job love is an emerging phenomenon, which is the utmost approach to fulfilling employees' and organizations' mutual interests, especially performance. The current study aims to define and extend the existing proposed construct of "loving one's job" as job love. It provides a novel theoretical multi-level framework of job love, contextual factors, and performance principled on the attraction-selection-attrition framework and social exchange theory through an integrated approach. This study collected cross-sectional data through a questionnaire from 332 nurses across eight tertiary hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The findings are based on the structural equation modeling technique (SEM) at multi-levels. The results show significant relationships between job love, contextual factors, and performance at the individual and organization levels. There are some insignificant relationships between the variables at the cross-level. Job love plays a key role for both employees and organizations. It facilitates the individuals in the recruitment process to select the job they love, be a good fit, and stay committed to that particular job and organization. This phenomenon allows people to pursue their common interests. Job love assists firms in developing human resource capacity utilization plans that satisfy the needed requirements.
Keywords
Job Love; Performance; Person-fit; Attractiveness; Alternatives;
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