Paper Details

Name: Anuradha Sarin
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Vol-13, Issue-2, Year-2026 ( July- December)
Page Number: 1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21292910

ABSTRACT
In their endeavour to higher employee performance, organisations have, for long, banked primarily on job satisfaction. However, despite the strong intuitive appeal, the extant literature has not being able to provide strong empirical support for a strong relationship between job satisfaction and employee performance. Owing to this, there is a need to broaden the horizon beyond job satisfaction and contemplate other variables which promise better employee performance.
Given this context, the present paper attempts to deliberate on life satisfaction and work-life balance, in addition to job satisfaction, to positively impact employee performance. The arguments have been developed with the support of extant literature, justifying that they be considered, as they not only individually impact employee performance but also have a role to play in positively influencing job satisfaction. The paper is structured by first having an appraisal of the job satisfaction-performance relationship, bringing to fore that the empirical evidence does not provide strong support in its favour. The next section provide arguments to to justify the inclusion of life satisfaction and work-life balance (in addition to job satisfaction), as factors influencing employee performance. Thus, it is desirable for organisations to broaden their perspective beyond mere job satisfaction and appraise variable like life satisfaction and work-life balance when trying to improve employee performance.

Keywords : Job satisfaction; life Satisfaction; work-life balance; happy worker.