Satisfied Employees: Organization's Key Towards Acquiring A Committed Workpool???

Globalization and open economies have thrown open the gates of opportunities for manpower to find a suitable employment in almost any part of the world. There are negligible physical boundaries. In the present age of cutting-edge technologies and strategic business world, loyal or committed employees are a very rare phenomenon. Competition has become very tough and in order to remain alive and kicking in the economy, organizations need to find ways to retain their existing talented employees. Lots of manpower, money and most importantly, time is spent in training the employees to get optimum productivity. Losing talented and trained manpower to competitors is a big blow to any organization. Lots of researches and efforts are being devoted towards finding the solution to this very BIG problem-How to make your employees loyal and committed to your organization? Job-satisfaction is being touted to be one big factor towards achieving this goal. This paper is an attempt to understand the importance of committed employees to any organization, benefits of a satisfied workforce and the methods by which organizations can ensure the commitment and satisfaction of its employees. The central theme of the paper is to review the previous researches done to find out the relationship between job-satisfaction and employee commitment and draw a conclusion as to whether keeping your employees satisfied with their jobs will make them committed towards your organization or not.