DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2016.v03i01.004

Pages: 20-27

Understanding of how teachers become satisfied and committed to their universities, and to what degree various factors contribute to their level of commitment, is really important to boosting up their performance. This study investigates the impacts of intrinsic job satisfaction factors in organizational commitment. The study population was university of Gondar employees. The data was collected with the help of structured questionnaire from 317 academic and administrative employees, the study were used proportional stratified sampling and simple random sampling method as sample design. The independent variable job satisfaction was measured using ten intrinsic variables adapted from Minnesota job satisfaction questionnaires. Meye, Allen and Smith revised Organizational Commitment Scales were used to measure the dependant variable organizational commitment. The Pearson‟s correlation and Regression were used to analyze the data .The major findings of the study were, intrinsic job satisfaction has significant relationship with Affective, Continuance and Normative commitment. In addition jointly intrinsic job satisfaction factors significantly predict organizational commitments.