Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment

Running head: MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Motivation and Performance Management
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MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment
Organizational commitment and job satisfaction are crucial organizational management
facets that determine the quality of workplace relationships, commitments, and attitudes.
Ordinarily, job satisfaction relates to employees’ response towards their jobs, while
organizational commitment is employees’ emotional response towards their organizations.
Notably, the former occurs as individuals’ contentment to their job responsibilities. Thus, job
satisfaction can be measured by the quality of workplace interactions, relationship with
supervisors, the nature of the job, job conditions, promotions, payments, and benefits. On the
other hand, organizational commitment occurs as employees’ psychological connection to their
organizations. Organizational commitment is often associated with improved productivity,
customer satisfaction, increased profitability, and employee retention. The existing strategies for
the improvement of organizational commitment include communication of goals, open
communication, transparency, strengthening of teamwork culture, adoption of strong workplace
ethics, and development of positive organizational culture. Therefore, both jib satisfaction and
organizational commitment alongside performance management principles contributes to the
overall success of a company.
However, job satisfaction facet is more strongly linked to performance at Google
Technology Company than the organizational commitment facet. Notably, the job satisfaction
facet occupies a central position on Google’s employee-focus strategy of increasing its
competitiveness and profitability in the global technology market. The employee-focus strategy
enables Google to create a unique culture of employee motivation and satisfaction (Bulygo,
2013). Google, in this case, has a human resource management department that focuses on
creating a team of happy employees to increase motivation and productivity. The management of