20.500.12556/DKUM-86419-6c37dbea-2802-84bd-44b7-52a57d702c52 Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors Maintaining order and safety in a prison environment heavily depends on prison officers, who daily interact with prisoners and are constantly dealing with dangerous situations. Their task performance is vital for the organizational performance and the fulfillment of the prisons’ mission. For managing prison officers’ job performance efficiently, it is important to understand the associated factors; however, job performance in a prison environment remains completely unexplored in Slovenia. This article presents a study conducted among Slovenian prison officers (n = 201), which examined their task performance, its association with job attitudes, and the role of organizational and work-related factors. The study results showed that the prison officers’ task performance is associated with their job satisfaction, but not with their job involvement. Moreover, their job satisfaction is associated with perceived organizational justice, job stress, and the dangerousness of the job. Based on these findings, we demonstrated that task performance depends on several direct and indirect factors that prison management should prioritize, the key ones being stress reduction, strengthening the feeling of organizational justice, and the ability to deal with the job-related dangers successfully. This article highlights organizational and work-related factors important for improving the prison officers’ well-being at work. job performance task performance workplace psychology prisons rison officers zaporski delavci delovna uspešnost psihologija delovnega mesta true true true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Slovenija; Znanstveno delo 2023-11-28 18:45:39 2023-11-29 11:15:28 2024-02-23 14:14:03 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 15 str. [article no.] ǂ1247743 Vol. 14 8 Sep. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-06-26 2023-08-28 2023-09-08 343.83(497.4) 1664-1078 163767555 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1247743 1664-1078 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1247743/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=1247743 1 bb25d7e1-8ea0-11ee-81e7-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=174431 fpsyg-14-1247743.pdf fpsyg-14-1247743.pdf 1 E0774607423BBEDEED928028A9DD90DF dd5a37f264783a0d62eac4cc659913717ff47e17928256139972a2e95a47bb0a 1d5e8ddf-8e16-11ee-b06a-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=174413 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1247743/full 1 f3f9df3e-8e15-11ee-b06a-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=174412 Fakulteta za varnostne vede 0 0 0