Mediating Effect of Autonomy in the Relationship between Job Knowledge, Job Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Job Performance Among Public Sector Employee

sector employee in Palestine. Furthermore, the importance-performance matrix analysis (IPMA) has shown that autonomy was the most important factor. Where, the autonomy was the most influential factor in the prediction of employee performance followed by motivation, satisfaction, and knowledge respectively. The municipalities must focus on how to provide autonomy and promote motivation at municipalities. Also, the study results stated that autonomy mediates the relationship between knowledge and performance; motivation and performance; and satisfaction and performance.