Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment among Public and Private Engineers

The present study is aimed at exploring the job satisfaction and organizational commitment among engineers of government and private organizations. Sample of the study consisted of 25 government engineers and 25 private engineers belong to Jodhpur District. All the employees have been in the age range of 30 to 45 years with service experience ranges between 5 to 15 years and may be of both the services and working in government and private sectors. For this purpose Job Descriptive Index (Smith, Kendall and Hulin, 1969) adopted for Indian settings by Sayeed and Sinha (1981) and further translated in Hindi (by the standard two-time process) and successfully used on a sample other than industrial organizations (Sinha, 1993) and Organization commitment scale developed by Puja Gupta, (2003) was used. Results indicated there is significant difference between engineers of government and private organizations on job satisfaction and organizational commitment.