Przywiązanie organizacyjne a poziom zaspokojenia potrzeb psychospołecznych pracowników
Organizational commitment and level of satisfaction of employees’ psychosocial needs

Summary/Abstract: Employee commitment to a company is an important factor affecting the stability and effectivefunctioning of the organization. The authors of the article demonstrate the multifaceted natureof the concept of “organizational commitment” and its close relationship with the concept of“organizational involvement”. They emphasize the importance of meeting the basic psychosocialneeds of employees by the organization.The goal of the study was to assess the relationship between the degree of satisfaction of thebasic psychosocial needs and organizational commitment. According to the approach of Maslow,apart from economic needs, the basic psychosocial needs include the need for safety, acceptance,respect and self-actualization.The study covered a group of 448 students at the Cracow University of Economics who hadwork experience. The majority of the participants of the research were young people, up to the ageof 30 years (more than 90%), and women (82%).The study used Meyer and Allen’s Organizational Commitment Survey, the five-pointBasic Psychosocial Need Satisfaction Scale and the five-point Organizational Involvement SelfAssessment Scale developed by the authors. The results of the study confirm the significant relationship between the satisfaction ofpsychosocial needs and commitment to the organization in the studied group. It is worth emphasizingthat the above-mentioned positive correlations occur between the degree of satisfaction of needs andthe organizational commitment with regard to higher needs, such as respect and self-actualization.While considering the components of organizational commitment, the strongest relationship foundis between the aforementioned needs and affective commitment component (r = 0.48 and r = 0.49).On the other hand, no correlation between the degree of satisfaction of basic psycho-social needsand the continuance component was found.

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