Job Involvement and Organisational Outcomes

Organisational Behaviour (MNG82001)
Assignment 1 (Part B): Literature Review draft
Students are expected to paraphrase information from at least three academic journal articles to
support their answers to the two questions (i.e. 3 in total, not 3 for each answer). When doing so you
must provide the correct ‘in-text’ and ‘Reference List’ citation details. Provide a Reference List at the
end of each answer.
To gain the most from this assessment activity it is suggested that students write approximately 200-
300 words for each answer.
Each question is worth 5 marks.
1. Define the meaning of Job Involvement and explain how it contributes to positive
Organisational outcomes?
According to Ng (2015), Job Involvement can be defined as a psychological attachment to the
organization. It looks at an attitude that is targeted towards the organization and employee
relationship (Ng 2015). It helps the employee connect to the organization, and engage with the
work that they are doing. Job involvement is the mental or psychological as well as the
emotional process by which an employee is able to feel connected to the work that they are
doing. It helps in increasing the level of motivation, and importance that the employee feels in
the workplace, and their commitment towards their work as well. When an employee has the
choice, job involvement is when the employee will act in the best interest of the company, and
not themselves. It happens when they are inspired by their work. According to Ng (2015), it also
helps them form a psychological bond or connection with the other employees working in the
organization. Yeh (2018), looks at the organizational outcome, such as emotional intelligence,
which can be increased by job involvement (Yeh 2018). Job involvement has also been found to
be beneficial to organizations, since job involvement means an increase in output from the
employee in most cases. This also leads to an increase in the profit within the organization,
which is also a positive organizational outcome.
Reference List
Ng, TW 2015, The incremental validity of organizational commitment, organizational trust, and
organizational identification, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 88, pp. 154-163.