| In the fi eld of organizational psychology, individual job performance is a central concept (Sonnentag & Frese, 2002 ). Despite its fundamental importance in most decisions involving human resources, there is still no comprehensive theory of job performance (Campbell, 1990 ; Deadrick & Gardner, 2008 ). In the mid-1970s researchers began the task of clarifying and broadening the job performance concept (Campbell, 1990 ), and the advances have focused mainly on the specifi cation of predictors and processes associated with individual performance (Sonnentag & Frese, 2002 ). Job performance can be defi ned as all the behaviors employees engage in while at work. Individual job performance is a relevant outcome measure of studies in the occupational setting; it refers to how well someone performs at his or her work. Aspects such as job-specifi c task profi ciency, behavior related to core tasks of the job, the level of commitment to core tasks, and general work behavior are becoming important factors related to job performance. To understand developments within the literature of job performance, some questions should be considered: What is the recent scenario of research on job performance in the main management and psychology journals? How has job performance been studied? What are the unexplored themes? Based on these issues, we want to study how organizational researchers understand job performance and what types of studies have been developed. Th is review is particularly relevant given that a bibliometric analysis was employed. Bibliometrics plays an important role in the analysis of the scientifi c production of a knowledge area, as it portrays the behavior and development of the theme by pointing out theoretical and empirical gaps and quantifying the existing features in the studies (Pritchard, 1969 ; Tague-Sutcliff e, 1992 ). Th erefore, the aim of this article is to off er an overview of studies related to job performance, presenting the results of a bibliometric review of empirical studies engendered in the principal journals of management and psychology, according to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) index, in the period 2006–۲۰۱۵٫ We want to understand how researchers are studying job performance (e.g., which methods are employed, which variables relate to performance, and how the construct has been defi ned). Th e analysis conducted allowed the identifi cation of gaps in the literature and the subsequent design of a research agenda. |
