International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 2016, Vol. 6, No. 12 ISSN: 2222-6990 750 www.hrmars.com Attitude toward Work, Job satisfaction, and Job Performance (An Empirical Study among Non-Saudi Academic Member of Higher Education Institutions) Gaafar Mohamed Abdalkrim Department of Business Administration, College of Science and Humanity -Alsulial, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia E-mail: gaafarabdalkrim@gmail.com Tagreed Awad Abd Elhalim Assistant Professor, College of Management Science, Omdurman Islamic University.(Sudan) DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v6-i12/2547 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v6-i12/2547 Abstract Over the past decade, it is assumed that positive attitude toward work lead to job satisfaction. Job satisfaction has been considered to be crucial for organizational success. This in turn enhances performance of individual and brings about innovation and development. Based on this phenomenon, the current study is aimed to explain an empirically the effect of attitude toward work, job satisfaction on non Saudi academic members of higher education performance. The data was collected through closed on line questionnaires with 1-5 Likert scale. Questionnaire consists of 24 items, the participants were (360) academic teaching staff employed at higher education institutions .in order to ensure the questionnaire validity, Cranach’s alpha coefficient was 0.94, indicating high reliability. The data are analyzed using several statistical techniques to test the stated hypotheses. Descriptive statistical measures are used to describe the study's sample characteristics. Multiple regression analysis is used to find the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. About the Originality/Value of this research to our knowledge, no study has empirically explained the effect of attitude toward work, job satisfaction on non Saudi academic members of higher education institutions performance. Result showed all the independent variable has significant effect dependent variables. And recommendation for future research and limitations of this study are proposed. Key words: Attitude toward Work, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Academic Institutions 1. Introduction In recent years academic researchers involved in employ’s attitude and job performance have devoted increasing attention in recent decade to the effect of work attitude, job satisfaction on employs performance. Job satisfaction is without doubt one of the most studied outcome in organization research one of the reason is probably is intuitive link with wide of