The mediating role of organizational commitment and the moderating role of perceived organizational support in the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance of educationists in public sector institutes of Thailand

The prime objective of the current study is to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. In addition, the mediating role of organizational commitment and the moderating role of perceived organizational support in the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance is examined. The general aim of this study is to examine the associations between the employee’s job satisfaction, organizational commitment, perceived organizational support and their job performance in the educational institutes of Thailand. Inspired by debates and empirical results in the extant literature, an alternative view of the associations between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, perceived organizational support and employee job performance are proposed. The study is among the pioneering studies on the issues. The current study has used SEM-PLS as statistical tool to answer the research questions raised, and the research objectives envisaged in the current study. The findings of the current study have provided support to the hypothesized results. © 2019, Primrose Hall Publishing Group.