The relationship between team cohesion and job performance among administrative office support staff at the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia, Kuching / Faridah Jair

The aim of this study were to identify whether there is a relationship between team cohesion and job performance. This was a correlation study with a sample of 92 administrative support staff at the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia, Kuching (IRBM). The self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data and SPSS version 20 was used to analyzed the data. The finding shows that there is a positive relationship between task cohesion and job performance (r=.809**, p=.000). There is also a positive relationship between social cohesion and job performance (r=.868**,p=.000). Task cohesion is the most significant value compared to social cohesion with mean (M=3.99). This research generate new questions to future researcher such as to replicate this research in terms of different scope of study whereby it should be conducted at private sector. Besides that, future researcher also can conduct the similar study at different department or focusing on the top management. The method to be used by using other instrument such as interview.