Progress in the Research of Individual Job Performance

Job performance has been of core concept in Industrial/Organizational(I/O)Psychology for more than a hundred years,and the research on job performance has become hot again in recent years.In the domain of job performance,scholars were more and more focusing on individual's work behavior which is controllable,dynamic,related to organizational goal accomplishment.With the eight-factor model,two factors model and the three-factor model proposed,the understanding on job performance has been deepened.Especially with the introduction of the adaptive performance,the scope of job performance has been further expanded.Chinese scholars also conducted a series of research on the traditional framework of job performance,the expanded framework of job performance,secondary structure of job performance,and traditional framework of performance appraisal in China.This article also point out that there are some problems should be investigated thoroughly: the criteria of work behaviors,the distinguish between each factor of job performance in actual organization,the integrated structure of job performance,and the structural differences of job performance associated with cultural differences.