أثر خصائص الوظيفة العامة على الالتزام التنظيمي للعاملين في القطاع الحكومي في المملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

This study aims to identify job characteristics in the public sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It also aims to determine the levels of organizational commitment and the impact of job characteristics 011 organizational commitment.

Moreover, it will attempt to identify job characteristics that have a significant impact on organizational commitment.

The sampling utilized in this study was 325 out of 6,108 public employees attending the first semester of the academic year 2011/2012 at the Institute of Public Administration.

This study has several findings, most important of which is that Saudi government employees maintain a high degree of skill variety, task identity and task significance.

A moderate level of autonomy and feedback is provided by their jobs.

They also show a high level of organizational commitment.

With regard to the impact of the independent variables (job characteristics) the dependent variable (organizational commitment), results show that feedback, autonomy, task identity and task variety impact the level of organizational commitment.

A combination of these variables contributes (26%) to the variation in organizational commitment amongst the participants in this study,