Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment with Google
Geraldine Burroughs
Professor Berkina Porter
BUS322 – Organizational Behavior
February 9, 2014

According to Jane Williams, industrial organization psychologist, from Indiana University and Purdue University says that Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction are two are the most important work attitudes needed in today’s organizational psychology. Organizational commitment and job satisfaction are very closely related to each other. Job satisfaction is defined “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job and job experiences.” (Locke, 1976). Job satisfaction is one of the most measured variables by organization from every industry. The reason organizations pay large amounts of money to obtain this information is it helps to determine the state of moral of their employees. Another reason for knowing job satisfaction among employees is research has discovered a correlation between job satisfaction and other variables such as organizational commitment, life satisfaction, family satisfaction, and performance on the job. The first test convergence means that when there are two separate tests done on job satisfaction they must correlate highly with each other. The second test of discrimination means that the test needs to measure different variables. For example researchers may want to know how people view their world both positively and negatively. The third test is nomological networking. Nomological is the study and discovery of general physical and logical laws. When researchers use this form of testing they are testing the relationship between measure being developed and the variables of interest. For example, nomological networking is the study between job satisfaction and other variables such as