The Influence of Workplace Reputation on Stress, Job Satisfaction and Career Success: A Multidimensional Study

Abstract

In an attempt to better understand how intentional efforts to control one‘s reputation affect workplace outcomes, a series of hypotheses are developed to explore the relationship between three types of reputation and workplace outcomes. Based on existing theory, these hypotheses explore how social reputation, task reputation, and integrity reputation affect career success, job satisfaction, and stress. The model is tested by applying a multisource assessment methodology including working adults, their supervisors and co-workers. Results indicate that social reputation leads to job satisfaction, task reputation to increased stress, and integrity reputation to career success. Implications of findings and directions for future research are discussed.