[01] Rizwan Qaiser Danish, Hailey College of Commerce, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. [02] Ahmad Usman Shahid, Hailey College of Commerce, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. [03] Nauman Aslam, Hailey College of Commerce, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. [04] Mariam Afzal, Institute of Business & Finance, National University of Modern Language, Lahore, Pakistan. [05] Hafiz Yasir Ali, Hailey College of Commerce, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the behaviour of the employees and organizational performance on employee’s job involvement and career salience through proper coordination and comfortable ecological situation in work place. Questionnaires were personally administered for data collection purposes using random sampling technique, 235 questionnaires were distributed and 205 were completely filled producing the response rate of 91%. We use statistical techniques through SPSS and the statistical tools which used in research are reliability and correlation analysis and then testing of hypotheses. The hypothetical sense of career salience is not satisfactory. The nature of data is primary and has been collected from capital of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. The results reflect that there is a significant direct and positive relationship between independent variables and dependent variable.

Job Involvement, Career Salience, Organizational Performance

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