Japanese Journal of Administrative Science

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This study examines the impact of core self-evaluations (CSE) on in-role and extra-role performance (helping and authority-challenging performance) and the moderating role of distributive justice for job evaluation, focusing on CSE's essential features such as self-confidence, proactivity, and voice. To clarify specific CSE effects, we controlled current job experience and job autonomy. Survey results indicated that employees' CSE predicted supervisor ratings of their extra-role performances significantly, especially authority-challenging performance, even after controlling for current job environment factors, but not in-role performances. Further, employees' perceptions of distributive justice for job evaluation moderated the relationship between CSE and the three performance types, suggesting that individuals distinguish between external and internal self-evaluations and are motivated to improve low evaluations. Individuals with high CSE possess authority-challenging behaviors that are enhanced when they perceive imbalanced external and internal self-evaluations.

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This research aims to understand how family conditions and work conditions influence work-life balance, and how work-life balance influences stress responses, job satisfaction. This research also aims to compare the differences between unmarried female nurses and married female nurses. Data were collected from nurses of a large-sized hospital and a university hospital (n=483). Data were analyzed with hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results showed that home conditions and work conditions influenced worklife-balance. And that work-life-balance influenced stress responses, job satisfaction. Results also showed the differences between unmarried female nurses and married female nurses. Especially, in married female nurses, child and position influenced work-life balance. In unmarried female nurses, work-life balance influenced stress more than married female nurses. The implications of the findings and directions for future research were discussed.

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