...Won Ho Kim; Young-An Ra; Jong Gyu Park; Bora Kwon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of burnout (i.e. exhaustion, cynicism, professional inefficacy) in the relationship between job level and job satisfaction as well as between job level and task performance...

... (1997) assumed that leader behavior would have a varying impact on follower performance as a function of job level. In accordance with SLT, it would be reasonable to assume that greater directiveness and lower supportiveness would be beneficial, even appreciated, by employees at lower level positions...