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This study focused on examining job satisfaction, organizational stress, and its effect on employee performance. The study attempts to examine the problems of the employer - employee relationship, the issue of feedback to the employees about their performances, promotions, conducive working environments, pay commensurate to their work and going on training programmes when necessary. The main aim was to examine the effect of job satisfaction and organizational stress on employees' performance. This study adopted the survey sampling method carried out in the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Ikoyi, Lagos State using 225 employees which were randomly selected from total a staff of 511. The findings revealed that there is a relationship between job satisfaction and employee performance; also there was a negative relationship which states that as organizational stress increases employee performance decreases; furthermore from the findings, as organizational stress increases job satisfaction decreases. Based on these findings recommendations were made that organizations should find ways of improving the level of job satisfaction of employees by giving them training, promotion; and also giving the employees' time to relax like going on vacation so as to be refreshed and highly productive.
If people were about their jobs, one would likely would find that they have strong opinions about how they feel (e.g., "I really dislike what I do"), what they believe (e.g., "we provide important services to the community"), and how they intend to behave (e.g., "I am going to look for a new job"). When one consider that people spend roughly one-third of their lives at work, and that what we do to earn a living represents a central aspect of how we think of ourselves as individuals, such strong feelings should not be surprising. The various attitudes people hold towards their job is referred to as job satisfaction; which is formally defined as individuals' positive or negative attitude towards their job (Greenberg and Baron, 2003).
Job satisfaction consists of the feelings and attitudes one has about one's job. All aspects of a particular job, good and bad, positive and negative, is likely to contribute to the development of feelings of satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) (Riggio, 2003).
Job can be defined as group of positions that are identical with respect to their major or...