The relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction: An example of Elazığ provincial private administration

Today, the effectiveness and change of local governments have increased together with the urbanization that developed with the effect of migration from the village to the city. The local administrations, which are the closest units to the public and who are elected to the elections, have moved away from the management understanding dominated by classical ruleism. It has become a management approach in which service is carried out and rules are created to serve people. As a result of this process, it was found that the service was taken to the center of the citizens, communication was more effective and a participatory management approach emerged. Employee resources of corporate organizations have gained more importance in order to be able to keep up with rapidly changing technology, to respond to the needs of the society and to make their services more effective and high quality. Changes in employees' organizational needs, career plans, levels of education, age, ideas and perception have occurred. Nowadays, employees want to meet their economic needs, develop their creativity within the organization and take the initiative in doing things. The institutions expect their employees to be connected to the institution and feel belonging. It was observed that employees with high organizational commitment and job satisfaction achieved more effective services to the institution by developing awareness of responsibility and organizational belonging. It seems easy to organize people to provide services, but it is determined by the level of job satisfaction how useful it is to the organization they work with and to the team they work with. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the level of organizational commitment and job satisfaction of Elazığ Special Provincial Administration staff, which is a local administrative unit. In the first part of the study, special provincial administrations are examined in the conceptual framework. The basic principles and concepts are explained with the literature study. In the second chapter, the theoretical framework of the concept of organizational commitment has been tried to be established. In the third chapter, it is tried to create a theoretical framework related to the scope of this research by making explanations about job satisfaction. In the fourth that last part of the study, the field research was conducted to measure the size of the relationship between the work satisfaction of the Elazığ Special Provincial Administration staff and the levels of their job satisfaction.