Abstract:

Employee performance is perhaps one of the most researched phenomenon in management research. To date, a plethora of factors that may prompt or impede employee performance have been identified. The aim of this conceptual paper is, however, to draw researchers’ attention towards a relatively less researched determinant of employees’ performance (i.e., harmonious work passion). Particularly, this paper proposes a tentative conditional process model to explicate how employees’ harmonious work passion might affect their performance and what role certain factors might play in it. The model proposed herein suggests that one way via which employees’ passion might affect or relate to their work or job performance is through work effort. It is also theorized that the passion–work effort and passion–performance relationships would be moderated by work centrality – the extent to which one considers work as a central part of his/her life. The paper concludes with suggestions for future empirical research.