HOW BROADLY DOES EDUCATION CONTRIBUTE TO JOB PERFORMANCE

By Thomas W. H. Ng, D. Feldman. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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“To work, or not to work, that is the question” – Recent trends and avenues for research on presenteeism (2020, background): “On the contrary, Miraglia and Johns (2016) reported weak associations between presenteeism and age, gender, education, and organizational tenure, although these demographics are fairly robust correlates of absenteeism (Côté & Haccoun, 1991; Ng & Feldman, 2008, 2009, 2010; Patton & Johns, 2015).”
An approach-avoidance framework of workplace aggression (2016, background): “Studies have suggested that gender, tenure, andeducation level are related to performance (Hoobler, Wayne, & Lemmon, 2009; Ng & Feldman, 2009, 2010) and that employees with greater tenure and rank have more positive relations with others at work (Cortina, Magley, Williams, & Langhout, 2001), both…”
Student Perceptions of the Importance of Employability Skill Provision in Business Undergraduate Programs (2013, background): “Many academics urge increased industry involvement in undergraduate skill development (Ng & Feldman, 2009).”
“I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, background): “A recent meta-analysis found that higher levels of education are linked to higher core job performance, increased organizational citizenship behavior, and decreased counterproductive behavior to varying degrees (Ng & Feldman, 2009).”
The student perspective on employability (2013, background): “Many authors maintain that employability is better and more easily developed outside of the formal curriculum (Andrews and Higson 2008 ; Ng and Feldman 2009 ; Rae 2007 ; Yorke 2004 ), with particular emphasis placed on employment-based training and experience.”
Do CEOs Matter to Firm Strategic Actions and Firm Performance? A Meta-Analytic Investigation Based on Upper Echelons Theory (2016, unknown): “9 innovation and change (see also Becker, 1964; Ng & Feldman, 2009; and Rogers & Shoemaker, 1971).”
The relationship between job satisfaction, job performance and employee engagement: An explorative study (2016, background): “Ng and Feldman (2009) found the opposite that education was a positive influence on job performance.”
A comparison of self-ratings and non-self-report measures of employee creativity (2012, background): “These skills might have been developed during formal education or from having senior-level positions in which they regularly analyze complex data and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty (Kosteas, 2009; Ng and Feldman, 2009).”
Explaining supervisor–subordinate guanxi and subordinate performance through a conservation of resources lens (2019, background): “Previous research (Ng and Feldman, 2009) had found a positive relationship between education level and job activities representing core task performance and citizenship behaviors.”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intention: Hysteresis and Persistence (2015, background): “Indeed, the evaluation of education programs appears to be a complex question (Dionne 1995; Ng and Feldman 2009; Ostroff 1991), because there are numerous types, objectives, and methods of evaluation.”
Counterproductive Work Behavior Among Chinese Knowledge Workers (2012, unknown): “A metaanalysis has shown that education level is negatively related to on-the-job substance use and absenteeism (Ng & Feldman, 2009).”
Locus of control, psychological empowerment and intrinsic motivation relation to performance (2015, background): “The relationship between psychological empowerment and employees’ creativity or innovation behavior has been investigated in prior researches (e.g. Singh and Sarkar, 2012; Sun et al., 2012; Zhang and Bartol, 2010).”