An empirical study on the influence of new generation employees’ job satisfaction on contextual performance in the energy industry

Abstract

New generation employees in the energy industry generally suffer from several problems such as poor psychological endurance, lack of professional literacy, excessive mental stress, and low labor enthusiasm, which will affect the employee's individual contextual performance and stability of the labor market. In the context of energy transition, therefore, it is of practical significance to solve their problems in routine work and identify the factors affecting the contextual performance of next generation employees in the energy industry. In this paper, the theoretical model with job satisfaction as an independent variable, organizational commitment as a mediator, the sense of self-efficacy as a moderator, and contextual performance as a dependent variable is established; and several research hypotheses are proposed on the basis of the two-factor theory, psychological contract theory, and self-efficacy theory. The following conclusions are made through the testing of hypotheses based on questionnaire investigation: Job satisfaction of new generation employees in the new energy industry positively affects the contextual performance; organizational commitment plays a mediating role between job satisfaction and contextual performance; the sense of self-efficacy plays a role of moderating job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and contextual performance. There is a mediated moderation effect and regulated mediation effect in the model. These conclusions are of great significance to the healthy development of new generation employees in the energy industry.