Job satisfaction in relation to work commitment and perceived organizational support

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction, work commitment and perceived organizational support. Further, it was aimed to examine relative effectiveness of different components of work commitment and perceived organizational support in predicting job satisfaction of industrial workers. The study was conducted on a sample of three hundred skilled industrial workers drawn from eight industrial units located in Sonepat, Delhi, and Noida. All the participants were male with a minimum tenure of three years and in the age range of 30 to 52 years. They received the tests measuring occupational and organisational commitment, perceived organizational support, and job satisfaction. The obtained data were treated statically for Pearson's correlation and stepwise multiple regression. Results indicated that job satisfaction correlates highly with affective occupational commitment (r=.53), affective organisational commitment (r=.49), and perceived organizational support (r=.41). Further, job satisfaction correlates .32 and .30 with normative occupational and organisational commitment. Its correlation with continuance component of occupational and organisational commitment is quite low, i.e., .13 and .12, respectively. The stepwise regression analysis located a set of four variables that accounted for 42 percent of variance (R= .65, R2= .42) in the job satisfaction of industrial workers. Among these four variables, affective occupational commitment appeared to be the most potent predictor of job performance with an R2 of .28, followed by affective organisational commitment that contributed an R2 of .12. Two other variables predicting job performance significantly are perceived organizational support and continuance.