Abstract:

Affective commitment is an individual‟s emotional attachment to the organization. Normative commitment reflects individual‟s sense of moral obligation to remain with the organization. On the other hand, continuance commitment is based on the individual‟s recognition of costs associated with leaving the organization. Affective commitment is considered more effective measure of organizational commitment since it indirectly influences the other two dimensions of organizational commitment. Job satisfaction is defined as "the extent to which people like (satisfaction) or dislike (dissatisfaction) their jobs. The present research was conducted on 341 faculty members of technical universities using purposive random techniques with the help of psychometric questionnaires with the objective to find out the level of affective, continuance and normative commitment as well as job satisfaction among them. The study reveals that the faculty members of Technical University .has shown moderate level of affective and continuance commitment and high level of normative commitment. Job satisfactions among the faculty members were also found to be moderately high. Organizational commitment and job satisfaction have been found at moderate level in Ph.D. and Non Ph.D. degree holder faculty members. Job satisfaction is found positively correlated with continuance commitment only and none other significant relationship has been observed in both the groups. Faculty members of both the government as well as private university have moderate level of organizational commitment. Government university‟ faculty members have shown low level of job satisfaction than their private university faculty members‟ counterparts who have shown high level of job satisfaction. Organizational commitment and job satisfaction are also reported at moderate level between male and female faculty members Technical University. Key Words: Affective Commitment, Normative Commitments, Continuance Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Technical University, Organizational Commitment.

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