Job satisfaction and dimensions of organizational commitment: Evidence from the state sector of Sri Lanka

During the last two decades scholars and researchers have made a tremendous effort to establish the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in various work settings. However researchers have paid less attention to study the relationship between job satisfaction and various dimensions of organizational commitment namely; Affective commitment, Normative commitment and Continuous commitment. This study examines the relationship between job satisfaction, and various dimensions of organizational commitment of executives in the State sector of Sri Lanka.

The results indicate that the job satisfaction of executives in the state sector reported an average level while the organizational commitment is in a satisfactory state. There is a positive significant relationship between job satisfaction and various dimensions of organizational commitment. But job satisfaction significantly correlated only with normative commitment.