An Empirical Study of Job Satisfaction and Organization Commitment

Employee job satisfaction and commitment is crucial to accelerate pace of organization growth. Through rigorous review of literature it is evident that, factors of job satisfaction are an important determinant of organization commitment. From this perspective, present study aims at assessment of job satisfaction and organization commitment, factors lowering job satisfaction and organization commitment among the engineers from a few engineering units in Satara MIDC. Requisite information was collected with the help of job satisfaction and organization commitment scale which is developed by taking the reference of previous studies. Sample consists of engineers from these units and their views are solicited by administering structured schedule. Result of T test revealed that, there is no significant relationship between job satisfaction and organisation commitment. The mean values of job satisfaction indicate all the dimensions are important for fostering job satisfaction. However, mean values of organization commitment indicate, employee commitment towards organization is not desirable.