“…The findings of this paper imply that organizations are advised to maintain performance appraisal satisfaction in the workplace, given the negative impact that job stress is known to have on performance (Rahman & Sen, 1987;Fried, Shirom, Gilboa, & Cooper, 2008;Osman, 2013) and other important organizational outcomes such as turnover tendency (Jou, Kuo, &Tang, 2013) and decreased job satisfaction (Jackson & Schuler, 1985;Abramis, 1994;Fried et al, 2008). Accordingly, organizations need to pay attention to what causes performance appraisal satisfaction in an effort to focus on the elements necessary to maintain high performance appraisal satisfaction.…”