The relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction toward affective commitment: the case of engineers in Sepakat Setia Perunding Sdn. Bhd.

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dc.contributor.authorWong, Siew Lee
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-05T02:27:36Z
dc.date.available2014-09-05T02:27:36Z
dc.date.issued2010-04
dc.description.abstractOrganizational commitment has been extensively researched as an important factor in employee retention and motivation. According to Meyer and Allen (1991), affective commitment is a sense of belonging and identification that increases their involvement in the organization’s goal and their desire to remain with the organization as thus, it was considered as an important determinant of dedication and loyalty. As an engineering consulting firm in this highly competitive service industry, employees are the most important asset which needs to be retained in the organization. The purpose of the research is to reveal the factors influencing the affective commitment among the engineers in Sepakat Setia Perunding Sdn. Bhd. (SSP). The hypotheses developed in this study are “Job characteristics are significantly related with affective commitment” (H1) and “Job satisfaction is significantly related with affective commitment” (H2). The research methodology chosen for this study was a quantitative, non-experimental, survey analysis, which was used to evaluate the relationship between an independent variable (job satisfaction and job characteristic) and another dependent (affective commitment among SSP’s engineers). The measurement instruments involved in this study consists of Job Diagnostic Survey, Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and Meyer and Allen (1997) Affective Commitment Scale to assess the job characteristic, job satisfaction and affective commitment respectively. There are 93 engineers in SSP has taken part to this survey. Result of analysis shows that both job characteristic and job satisfaction are statistically significant related to affective commitment. Thus, this study suggested that engineers with higher value of job characteristic and perceived higher job satisfaction tends to feel more emotionally attached with the organization.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectBusiness Administrationen_US
dc.subjectJob Characteristicsen_US
dc.subjectJob Satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectAffective Commitmenten_US
dc.titleThe relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction toward affective commitment: the case of engineers in Sepakat Setia Perunding Sdn. Bhd.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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