Editing Performance appraisal (section)

====Happy-productive worker hypothesis====

The happy-productive worker hypothesis states that the happiest workers are the most productive performers, and the most productive performers are the happiest workers.<ref name="Staw">{{cite journal |last1=Staw |first1=Barry M. |title=Organizational Psychology and the Pursuit of the Happy/Productive Worker |journal=California Management Review |date=July 1986 |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=40–53 |doi=10.2307/41165214 |jstor=41165214 }}</ref> Yet, after decades of research, the relationship between [[job satisfaction]] and job performance produces only a weak positive correlation.  Published in 2001 by ''Psychological Bulletin'', a meta-analysis of 312 research studies produced an uncorrected correlation of 0.18.<ref name="Judge">{{cite journal |last1=Judge |first1=Timothy A. |last2=Thoresen |first2=Carl J. |last3=Bono |first3=Joyce E. |last4=Patton |first4=Gregory K. |title=The job satisfaction–job performance relationship: A qualitative and quantitative review. |journal=Psychological Bulletin |date=2001 |volume=127 |issue=3 |pages=376–407 |doi=10.1037/0033-2909.127.3.376 |pmid=11393302 }}</ref> This correlation is much weaker than what the happy-productive worker hypothesis would predict.