Organizational Commitment: Status Quo in Qatar

Abstract

Qatar is a fast growing economy which is largely dependent on expatriate labour. This creates a unique situation that affects organizational commitment. This research focusses on understanding the relationship between the job characteristics and organizational commitment. The first of its kind of study in Qatar, it presents the relationships among various job characteristics and the dimensions of organizational commitment. The study provides good support for the predictive effect of job characteristics on organizational commitment, indicating that enriching jobs through changing the four core job dimensions would have a positive effect on employees' organizational commitment.