Organizational commitment and job satisfaction: a study with municipal civil servants
This study aims to analyze the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction among civil servants of city halls. The theoretical platform that was used to approach organizational commitment was based on the model of Meyer and Allen (1991), validated in Brazil by Medeiros and En...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) |
| Repository: | Revista de Administração Pública |
| Language: | Portuguese English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/72847 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/72847 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | organizational commitment job satisfaction city halls. compromiso organizacional satisfacción en el trabajo municipalidades. comprometimento organizacional satisfação no trabalho prefeituras. |
| Summary: | This study aims to analyze the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction among civil servants of city halls. The theoretical platform that was used to approach organizational commitment was based on the model of Meyer and Allen (1991), validated in Brazil by Medeiros and Enders (1998). Regarding job satisfaction, the construct of Siqueira (1995, 2008) was used. For research development, the quantitative approach was chosen, and the data was collected using research instruments derived from scales validated for these constructs. The methods used to compare averages were the t test and Anova, and for the evaluation of relationships, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation modeling were used. The associations between the constructs showed that affective dimension of commitment is significantly related with satisfaction. A negative relationship was found for the normative dimension with job satisfaction, indicating the higher the normative commitment of employees, the lower their satisfaction. As for the instrumental dimension, there was no relation with satisfaction. The results showed that civil servants of city halls feel satisfied when they are effectively committed and dissatisfied if their commitment is only to comply with norms. |
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