The Influence of Organizational Policy, Leadership and Job Characteristic to the Work Satisfaction and Its Implication to Organizational Commitment (A Study on Civil Servants in Ministry of Defense Republic of Indonesia)

Abstract

Organizational commitment is a strong passion of employees to indentify him/her selves to the values, objectives, and targets of the organization. Organizational commitment is influenced by several factors, both internally and externally. The most important factor which influences the employee's' organizational commitment are organization policy, leadership, job characteristic, and job satisfaction. Job satisfaction, leadership and organizational policy are the external factors while job satisfaction is internal factor for employees. The significance of organizational commitment in building the organizational performance has important implication to the employees, organization and society in broad term. Strong employee's commitment will identify her/him selves to the objectives and organizational values, and has strong will to become a part of organization and agree to show extra behavior and bigger role.

Keywords: organizational policy, leadership, job characteristic,job satisfaction,organizational commitment