Workload, remuneration, and psychological reward play an essential role in the level of job satisfaction and also in the level of job performance of any individual whether in the form of an increase or decrease. This study intends to investigate the impact of workload, remuneration and psychological reward on job performance along with mediating role of job satisfaction. Data for this study was collected from 231 employees of different private sectors and analyzed by using regression and correlation analysis. The result of the study indicates that workload showed positive significant impact on job performance and job satisfaction that was contrary to hypotheses. Similarly, remuneration and psychological reward have significant positive effect on job satisfaction but insignificant effect on job performance. Additionally job satisfaction has strong positive effect on job performance. Finally job satisfaction does not mediate any relationship of workload, remuneration and psychological reward with job performance.
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