Abstract

 
 
 Organizational commitment is the individual's mental attachment to the organization and is perceived as employees’ eager to contribute in organizational achievements feeling satisfied at work. The study aimed at examining the relationship between the organizational commitment and job satisfaction among the nurses of public and private sectors hospitals in Peshawar. The study used a reliable instrument (Cronbach alpha=0.91), developed from the literature, containing 27 items to measure the components of organizational commitment and job satisfaction. A sample size (N=120) was randomly selected, consists of female nurses employed in public and private hospitals in Peshawar. The primary data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and regression analysis. The results showed that the affective commitment and normative commitment are significantly positively associated with job satisfaction, while the continuous commitment was not significantly associated with job satisfaction of the nurses in hospitals of Peshawar. The study revealed that employees who are highly committed to the organization have higher level of job satisfaction. It is concluded from the finding of the study that a caring and conducive work environment may play a vital role in creating organizational commitment among employees.
 
 
Highlights
The results of co-relation analysis show that all the three components of organizational commitment have strong relationship with each other and that there is significant relationship between affective commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment with job satisfaction means that when employees are committed with their current job affectively, they perceive high level job satisfaction similar as the results of Shurbagi, A
The nurses in public and private sector hospitals are stayed in their organization because they are affectively committed to their organization
This study found that amongst the three components of independent variables, the affective commitment and normative commitment have very strong relationship with job satisfaction while continuance commitment has least relationship with job satisfaction
Summary
To investigate the relationship between affective commitment and job satisfaction1. To find the association between continuous commitment and job satisfaction.2. To investigate the relationship between affective commitment and job satisfaction. 1. To find the association between continuous commitment and job satisfaction. 2. To know the relation between normative commitment and job satisfaction. H1: There will be significant relationship between affective commitment and job satisfaction. H2: There will be significant relationship between continuous commitment and job satisfaction. H3: There will be significant relationship between normative commitment and job satisfaction
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