Organizational commitment in an environment with continuous change
Ellonen, Kim Marcus (2020)
Ellonen, Kim Marcus
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020052915273
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020052915273
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The aim for this thesis is to examine how co-worker relationships and job satisfaction affects organizational commitment as well how committed and satisfied the target company's employees are. Understanding organizational commitment in the target company can help decrease the turnover of employees and reduce cost of recruiting and training new staff. Also committed personnel is a key factor when a organization wants to pursue organic growth.
This thesis was executed by using quantitative research methods. The research material was gathered via Microsoft Forms survey and sent out to the target company's employees, altogether 71 employees responded. The survey was composed of four different parts: respondents’ background information, co-worker relationship's , job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The material was gathered in March 2020 and it was analyzed using IBM SPSS and performing statistical tests and analysis. The results of this study indicated that intrinsic job satisfaction is a key variable for organizational commitment. Also co-worker relationship affects the commitment. No demographic features seemed to have stronger correlation than the other to the factors the study discovered.
The study results gains knowledge on organizational commitment and its antecedents. This study helps these factors put into practice in the target organization. The results give new insights in intrinsic satisfaction and co-worker relationship and its meaning in organizational commitment. The results can be applied to sales organizations as guidelines when they want to specify what the management need to focus on if the organization wants to commit their employees
This thesis was executed by using quantitative research methods. The research material was gathered via Microsoft Forms survey and sent out to the target company's employees, altogether 71 employees responded. The survey was composed of four different parts: respondents’ background information, co-worker relationship's , job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The material was gathered in March 2020 and it was analyzed using IBM SPSS and performing statistical tests and analysis. The results of this study indicated that intrinsic job satisfaction is a key variable for organizational commitment. Also co-worker relationship affects the commitment. No demographic features seemed to have stronger correlation than the other to the factors the study discovered.
The study results gains knowledge on organizational commitment and its antecedents. This study helps these factors put into practice in the target organization. The results give new insights in intrinsic satisfaction and co-worker relationship and its meaning in organizational commitment. The results can be applied to sales organizations as guidelines when they want to specify what the management need to focus on if the organization wants to commit their employees