Job Satisfaction Theory

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The researcher used Big Five Factor Model to investigate the relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Commitment as well as Job Satisfaction. Several Studies have investigated the relationship between the five factor personality model and job satisfaction. Notably, Judge, Heller, and Mount (2002) conducted a meal analysis, linking the five-factor personality model to job satisfaction. The researcher used their investigation as a guide to the present study. Neurotic individuals are prone to put themselves in situation that foster negative affect (Emmons et al., 1985). To the extent that such situations evolve in jobs, they lead to diminished levels of Job Satisfaction (Judge et al., 2002). Several Studies found that negative…show more content…
(2006) found that Extraversion was significantly related to affective, continuous and normative commitment. Neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness to experience were significantly related to continuous commitment. Lastly agreeableness was significantly related to normative commitment. Thus, the study suggests that the Big Five Factor Personality model plays an important role in the development of organizational commitment. The organizational commitment is no doubt one of the most researched topic in organizational behavior and human resource management but is also an essential concern in organizational and industrial psychology because of its relationship with many of the employees behavior and attitude as employees satisfaction (Tanriverdi, 2008), job performance and quality of work (Hacket et al.,…show more content…
Measuring organizational commitment is multi-dimensional concept and is complex work attitude (Allen and Meyer, 1996). However, two dimensions of OC, effective commitment and continuance commitment were of significant nature. According to Moynihan, Boswell and Boudreau, (2000) effective commitment refers to identification with, involvement in, and emotional attachment to the organization. Previous work has found that both job characteristics and job satisfaction are statistically significantly related to affective commitment. Whereas, continuance commitment refers to commitment based on the employee’s recognition of the costs associated with leaving the organization such as loss of benefits and few employment alternatives. According to Meyer and Allen (1991) affective commitment is a sense of belonging and identification that increases the employees’ involvement in the organization’ goal and their desire to remain with the organization as thus, is considered as an important determinant of dedication and loyalty. Both job characteristics and job satisfaction are statistically significant with affective commitment. Simply speaking, employees with high affective commitment stay with the organization because they want to do so, compared with employees who have high continuance commitment who stay with the organization because they have
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