The relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in organizations
The relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in organizations
By
Hanan Yosrey Mohamed
Research Methodology Paper
Submitted to the Management Department
At the Faculty of Management Technology
The German University in Cairo
Student registration number: 25-2329
Group number: T-03
Date: Monday April 28th, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Sherwat Elwan
Name of TA: Monica Labib
1. Methodology
Research gap A large part of the success in the industrial and managerial sector worldwide was due to the large amount of researches that always study the work environment trying to improve the weak conditions in order to reach the ultimate level of performance together with the finest and biggest amount of productivity whether locally or globally.
The research problem and gap in the study is that researchers have done a lot of studies to test the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in many countries but it has not been done before in Egypt. While going through some articles related to this paper, many articles were found covering the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment, maybe because of researchers interest towards that exact topic or maybe because it could help a lot of organizations cut a lot of costs and decrease the rate of turnover. However, there were no articles covering the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment for Egyptian employees. It is obvious that such studies touch the need of both individuals and organizations; thus, they should be increased and focused. From this point, this paper will be directed to study the relation between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the Egyptian organizations. Therefore the aim of this paper is to answer the research question “what is the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment for employees in organizations in Egypt?” In this research it shows
By
Hanan Yosrey Mohamed
Research Methodology Paper
Submitted to the Management Department
At the Faculty of Management Technology
The German University in Cairo
Student registration number: 25-2329
Group number: T-03
Date: Monday April 28th, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Sherwat Elwan
Name of TA: Monica Labib
1. Methodology
Research gap A large part of the success in the industrial and managerial sector worldwide was due to the large amount of researches that always study the work environment trying to improve the weak conditions in order to reach the ultimate level of performance together with the finest and biggest amount of productivity whether locally or globally.
The research problem and gap in the study is that researchers have done a lot of studies to test the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in many countries but it has not been done before in Egypt. While going through some articles related to this paper, many articles were found covering the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment, maybe because of researchers interest towards that exact topic or maybe because it could help a lot of organizations cut a lot of costs and decrease the rate of turnover. However, there were no articles covering the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment for Egyptian employees. It is obvious that such studies touch the need of both individuals and organizations; thus, they should be increased and focused. From this point, this paper will be directed to study the relation between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the Egyptian organizations. Therefore the aim of this paper is to answer the research question “what is the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment for employees in organizations in Egypt?” In this research it shows
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