The impact of challenge and hindrance stressors on job satisfaction : moderating role of Islamic work ethics

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This study investigates the primary and the interac- tive e ects of challenge and hindrance stressors and Islamic Work Ethics (IWE) on job satisfaction.

The author collected data from 465 employees working in banking sector of Pakistan using self- administered close-ended questionnaires.

Multiple moderated re- gression was used to analyze the data.

Results indicated the rela- tionship between Challenge Stressors (CS) and job satisfaction to be insignificant while hindrance stressors had significant negative impact on job satisfaction.

A significant impact of IWE on job satisfaction was also confirmed.

The moderating e ect of IWE on relationship between CS and job satisfaction was significant, though the IWE did not moderate the relationship between hin- drance stressors and job satisfaction.

The study provides man- agerial implications along with the limitations and future research directions.