Summary: | This study argues the need for the managers and head of department in
the public sector to know the relationship between facets of job satisfaction
and the organizational commitment among their employees. By knowing
this relationship, hopefully the managers and head of department in the
public sector can improve their human resource management by motivating
the employees to be more efficient, productive, transparent and
accountable in carrying out its responsibilities with excellence. This study
investigate the relationship between overall Job Satisfaction, Satisfaction of
Pay, Promotion, Supervision, Nature of Work and Coworkers as the
independent variables; Organizational Commitment as dependent variable;
and Age, Gender, Education level and Length of Service as the moderating
variables. In this study, data were collected from a sample of 115
executives in Kota Kinabalu. The finding showed the overall Job
Satisfaction has direct positive relationship with Organizational
Commitment of the executive in the public sector; The satisfaction of Pay,
Promotion, Supervision, Nature of work and Coworkers also have direct
positive relationship with Organizational Commitment; The finding also
showed that all the relationships between Pay, Promotion, Supervision,
Nature of work and Co-workers with Organizational Commitment was not
moderated by age, gender, education level and length of service; except
the relationship between Pay and Organizational commitment was
moderated by the education level.
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