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Employee satisfaction towards their jobs is an important element in maintaining a good productivity and loyalty to the organization. Employees who receive good incentives from their job by the organization will lead to high job satisfaction and increases the organizational commitment. The present study investigated the relationships between job satisfaction and organizational commitment during Covid-19 among Malaysia’s employees. Quantitative analysis was used based on an online questionnaire through Google Form conducted with randomly selected among employees in Malaysia (N=206). The questionnaire was constructed to measure the job satisfaction items was developed by Taylor and Bowers (1972) and the organizational commitment items developed by Allen and Meyer (1990). The data obtained were analyzed using SPSS and the findings were described based on descriptive analysis and correlation. It is shown that job satisfaction and organizational commitment have a significant relationship when Pearson’s r (206) = .724, p<0.05. The results obtained from the study shows that there are significant relationships between job satisfaction and organizational commitment which means that both influence the employees. If job satisfaction increases, organizational commitment will increase too. Therefore, this research proves that the two variables must be achieved to produce better employees.
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To Cite this Article: Fauzi, R. A. F. R., Alauddin, A. N. M., Ismail, N., & Jabar, J. A. (2022). Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment During Covid-19 among Malaysia’s Employees. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(11), 2976 – 2984.
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