JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONALCOMMITMENT: AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT PREDICTORSIN A GROUP OF PROFESSIONALS

摘要

Job satisfaction and organizational commitment have long been identified as relevantfactors for the well-being of individuals within an organization and the success of theorganization itself. As the well-being can be, in principle, considered as emergent fromthe influence of a number of factors, the main goal of a theory of organizations is toidentify these factors and the role they can play. In this regard job satisfaction andorganizational commitment have been often identified with structural factors allowing anorganization to be considered as a system, or a wholistic entity, rather than a simpleaggregate of individuals. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that job satisfaction hasa significant, direct effect on determining individuals' attachment to an organization anda significant but indirect effect on their intention to leave a company. However, acomplete assessment of the role of these factors in establishing and keeping theemergence of an organization is still lacking, due to shortage of measuring instrumentsand to practical difficulties in interviewing organization members.