The impact of subjective well-being and interpersonal relationships on contextual performance and task performance: An examination among public and private sector executives

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Sanjay Nawale (Department of Psychology, Arts and Commerce College, Belapur, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra) V. R. Shinde (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra) Shivanand Thorat (Department of Psychology, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, Department of Psychology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Arts, Commerce and Science College, Akurdi, Pune, Maharashtra)

Performance of any organization is determined by quality of the human resource, which plays the vital role in using the available resources and to construct further building blocks of the organization. Administration is the key aspect in the process of development of any organization. Successful administrators or executives acts as both an artist and a scientist. The present study was planned to explore into the impact and prediction possibilities that subjective well-being and good interpersonal relationships can have on contextual and task performance of public and private sector executives. Total 400 participants, 200 from public sector (comprising 100 males & 100 females), and 200 from private sector (comprising 100 males & 100 females) were selected with convenient sampling. The tools used in this research were Subjective Well-being Inventory (SUBI) (Sell & Nagpal, 1992); Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B) (Schutz, 1977); Contextual Performance Scale and Task Performance Scale (Motowidlo & Scotter, 1994). Correlation and regression analyses were performed on the data and the results revealed that subjective well-being was positively correlated with interpersonal relationships (.332,p< .01), and with contextual performance (.650, p< .01). Interpersonal relationship was positively correlated with contextual performance (.260, p< .01). Subjective well-beingwas found to be significant predictor of interpersonal relationships (Adjusted R2 = .108) and contextual performance (Adjusted R2 = .421). Interpersonal relationship was found to be significant predictor of contextual performance (Adjusted R2= .065).