In this article, the relationship between self-esteem and job satisfaction (satisfaction from the kind and the nature of work, satisfaction from the manager or supervisor, satisfaction from co-workers, satisfaction from promotion, satisfaction from salary and wages) are considered and examined. A random sample of 310 personnel in the Kerman province of Iran was selected. Two valid and reliable questionnaires, the Kruskal-Wallis test and the median test, were used in data analysis. The results indicated that there is a meaningful (significant) relationship between self-esteem and the following factors: The degree of job satisfaction; the degree of satisfaction from the kind and the nature of work; the degree of satisfaction from the manager or the supervisor; the degree of satisfaction from the co-workers; the degree of self-esteem and the degree of satisfaction from promotion; and the degree of satisfaction from salary and wages. There is no significant difference between the degree of job satisfaction and its five dimensions, in the different levels of each of the modifying variables: sex, age, salary, marriage, the number of family and the record of service.
Human resources are considered as one of the key components of any organization to reach its objectives. Human resources help organization performance doing organizational duties and making employees’ improvement. Because of this, employee performance appraisal has changed to one of the most important issues for top managers. Performance appraisal is necessary to select useful strategies for increasing productivity of human resource management along with productivity of employee to get strategic targets. In this study, we extract effective factors on increasing of employee performance and subsequently, present some suggestions to managers of academic organizations. The study was performed on some employees who worked for Islamic Azad University in 2013. Cronbach alpha was equal to 99.4% for employee performance appraisal, which confirmed the overall survey. To recognize key factors we used path analysis technique too. The results of the study revealed that in this school, employee performance in practical field was higher than expected, but in terms of operational and behavioral fields, they were in the middle stage
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