dc.description.abstract | The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between job satisfaction and
organizational commitment among private secondary school teachers in Kajiado North
District. The research adopted a descriptive survey design with a sample of 71(30% of
the entire population) teachers drawn by use of proportionate stratified sampling
technique to represent each category of teachers, that is principals, deputy principals,
heads of departments and regular teachers. In addition, simple random sampling was used
to select teachers while purposive sampling was used to select principals and their
deputies. Data used in this study was collected by use of drop and pick later
questionnaire. A total of 58 useable questionnaires were returned yielding a response rate
of 81.9%. The purpose of the study was communicated to respondents and participation
was voluntary. Confidentiality of information provided by respondents was also
maintained. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse data. In particular,
the use of mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation coefficient was employed
and presented using bar charts, graphs and pie charts. The study found out that job
satisfaction elements such as pay, promotions, supervision, benefits and rewards are
strongly correlated with continuance commitment but negatively correlated with affective
and normative commitment. Supervision, however, is strongly correlated with affective
commitment and all job satisfaction elements are negatively correlated with normative
commitment. The study recommends management to review promotion policies
perceived by teachers may negatively impact their organizational commitment. On the
other hand, if employees perceive that there is an opportunity for advancement in their
job may prompt them to remain committed to their organizations. It is therefore,
recommended that management of these private secondary school pay the teaching staff
equally for comparable work assignments. The limitation of the study was that time and
resource was not sufficient enough to carry out the research for the whole county. The
study cannot be used in general since it only covers one region of job satisfaction and
organizational commitment while private secondary school teachers are allover in other
districts, compounding several factors of job satisfaction and organizational commitment
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