The Effect of Job Satisfaction of the Talented Employees on Organizational Commitment: A Field Research

In recent years, the issue of job satisfaction and organizational commitment is ever becoming more important in working life. Considering as being responsible from the consequences of the work, but unable to participate in its processes is seen as one of the major obstacles before job satisfaction. With the industrialization period, rules regarding the job and the working place started to replace the traditional ties and the individual's taking a place in the society to the extent of its abilities led the individual's abilities become individualize and enter into the process of alienation far from its surrounding. This process led the individual to fall into a life far from not only the social values but also the society itself and then to present the result of autonomy and isolation of the individual. Job satisfaction is considered as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the evaluation of individual's jobs and work experience. Developments with regard to the commitment bring the commitment based on the job satisfaction forward when the conditions beyond the traditional practices have been met. This situation that becomes prominent nowadays depends also on the sense of satisfaction from the job done among the will of commitment of the talented employees to a specific working place. These attitudes that measure the organizational commitment and ensure the employees to remain constantly at work are considered as the concepts that are emphasized in recent years. Within the scope of the research, scales of organizational commitment and job satisfaction were applied, the acquired data were analyzed statistically. It was found out in the analysis that was carried out by using the non-parametric tests, organizational commitment and job satisfaction perceptions of the ones participating in the research and their gender, marital status, age and working hours which are their personal characteristics have showed a significant difference. Regression analysis was carried out in order to measure to which extent the job satisfaction is effective on the formation of the organizational commitment. With a view to contribute to the process of this discussion, the relationships between the job satisfaction of the talented employees and their organizational commitments were examined. Results taken at the end of the study were interpreted by basing upon these data. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of 8th International Strategic Management Conference