Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees' subjective well-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and statistically-significant relationship between the average level of job satisfaction at the workplace and workplace performance. This finding is present in both cross-sectional and panel analyses and is robust to various estimation methods and model specifications. In contrast, we find no association between levels of job-related affect and workplace performance.

Keywords: Subjective well being; job satisfaction; job-related affect; workplace performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-07
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