Impact of job performance, job engagement and job involvement on job satisfaction of project team. measuring the moderating effect of perceived job autonomy.

Abstract

Pakistan is one of the developing countries in the world, the IT industry of twin cities is not as mature as the industries of cities of other developed countries. To improve the IT industry of the twin cities, the practitioners and experts need to work on different factors, one of the factor is job satisfaction in IT of project team. This study will examine the impact of job performance, engagement, involvement on job satisfaction of project team members. Also the study examined the moderating effect of perceived job autonomy on the relationship of job performance, engagement, involvement on job satisfaction of project team members. The study is empirical in nature. Research philosophy was positivist. Research method is mono method, the study is quantitative in nature, the survey was conducted and the questionnaires was floated in the IT industry of twin cities of Pakistan, the sample size was 294.Unit of analysis Project team that include project managers, CEOs and other team members. The results of study shows job performance-job satisfaction, job engagement-job satisfaction and job involvement-job satisfaction have positive relationship, whereas perceived job autonomy have negative impact on job performance-job satisfaction relationship and there perceived job autonomy doesn’t affect the job engagement-job satisfaction and job involvement-job satisfaction relationship. The study is unique in nature, as there is no current study that has measured the combined effect of job performance, job engagement and job involvement, in presence of moderator perceived job autonomy on job satisfaction of project team in twin cities of Pakistan