Core Self-Evaluation and Job Performance : The Role of Anticipated Guilt and Gratitude

How to maintain productivity from employees is one of the most crucial questions for organizations competing in current aggressive environment. The paper empirically investigates core self-evaluation (CSE) traits as potential predictors of job performance. By incorporating the anticipated emotions (guilt and gratitude), appropriate conditions necessary to direct high CSE towards performance are unveiled. Data is collected from 87 full time collection employees and 21 mangers of a local bank through two separate questionnaires. Results show a positive and significant relationship between CSE and job performance. Moreover, anticipated gratitude has the power to moderates this linkage along varying degrees of CSE while anticipated guilt is only moderating at lower level of CSE. The conclusions are elaborated in terms of their contribution and directions