An Investigation of Relationship between Employees’ Biographical Characteristics, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment

Background: Job satisfaction refers to cognitive, affective and evaluative reactions or attitude and state that it is a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or experience. Organizational commitment has been defined as the extent that an individual accepts, internalizes, and views his or her role based on organizational values and goals. Objective: The purpose of present research was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of Mazandaran Fishery and Marine Organization’s employees (N=150 and n=108). Results: Results showed that there were significant relationships among employees’ biographical characteristics, job satisfaction and its’ dimensions, and organizational commitment and its’ components. The results of the regression analysis indicated the predictive effects of employees’ intrinsic, extrinsic, and general job satisfaction on organizational commitment, affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment. Conclusion: According to present research results and in order to create attachment and/or commitment sense within employees towards their job and organization, managers of the organization should provide primarily the context of their satisfaction enhancement because. Some of the contexts that pragmatically caused high levels of satisfaction and then high levels of commitment within employees include compensation, policies, increasing well-being, working conditions, building trust, teamwork, and employee training, participating, and empowerment.

Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Biographical Characteristics, Mazandaran Fishery and Marine Organization