A Comparative Study of Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction in the Private and Government Professional Educational Institutions

The present study is an exploratory research and concerned to explore the level of organizational commitment and job satisfaction among the faculty member of government and Private educational institutions. The study was conducted on a randomly selected sample of 546 faculty members, out of which 341 faculty members were from Private and 205 faculty members were from government educational institutes. Results of the study revealed that in government educational institutes normative commitment is found to be high and continuance commitment were found moderately high among the faculty member of Private institutes. While on the dimension of job satisfaction, faculty members of the government and Private educational institutes are showing a moderately high level of job satisfaction. On the other hand it was also revealed that faculty members with doctoral degree is more satisfying in government institutions than Non Ph.D degree holder and showing a moderately high level of job satisfaction. While in private institutions faculty members who Ph.D. and Non Ph.D holders are having moderate level of job satisfaction.