Understanding Correlation between Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment in Higher Institutions: A Case Study of Polytechnic Staff

Abstract

Numerous researches have been conducted on the consequential effects of employee satisfaction on organisational commitment globally, but only a few of them has focused on academic institution staff in Nigeria, especially employees in Polytechnics. Thus, the need arises to examine the impact of employee job satisfaction on domains of organisational commitment among staff of the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas in Bonny, Rivers, Nigeria. The study involved 82 academic (54.9%) and administrative (45.1%), 59.8% and 40.2% of the respondents were men and women respectively, with age ranging from 18 years to 65 years. Data were elicited by means of the questionnaire using stratified random sampling technique and the data were calculated using correlation matrix and simple linear regression. The results show that; 1) Job satisfaction positively correlated with organisational commitment of polytechnic employees, 2) Both academic and administrative staff members did not differ on job satisfaction, 3) Administrative staff members seem more committed to their job than academic staff, and 4) Job satisfaction was a predictor of organisational commitment. These findings and its implications were discussed.