Przywiązanie organizacyjne a poziom zaspokojenia potrzeb psychospołecznych pracowników

Employee commitment to a company is an important factor affecting the stability and effective functioning of the organization. The authors of the article demonstrate the multifaceted nature of the concept of “organizational commitment” and its close relationship with the concept of “organizational involvement”. They emphasize the importance of meeting the basic psychosocial needs of employees by the organization. The goal of the study was to assess the relationship between the degree of satisfaction of the basic psychosocial needs and organizational commitment. According to the approach of Maslow, apart from economic needs, the basic psychosocial needs include the need for safety, acceptance, respect and self-actualization. The study covered a group of 448 students at the Cracow University of Economics who had work experience. The majority of the participants of the research were young people, up to the age of 30 years (more than 90%), and women (82%). The study used Meyer and Allen’s Organizational Commitment Survey, the five-point Basic Psychosocial Need Satisfaction Scale and the five-point Organizational Involvement Self-Assessment Scale developed by the authors. The results of the study confirm the significant relationship between the satisfaction of psychosocial needs and commitment to the organization in the studied group. It is worth emphasizing that the above-mentioned positive correlations occur between the degree of satisfaction of needs and the organizational commitment with regard to higher needs, such as respect and self-actualization. While considering the components of organizational commitment, the strongest relationship found is between the aforementioned needs and affective commitment component (r = 0.48 and r = 0.49). On the other hand, no correlation between the degree of satisfaction of basic psycho-social needs and the continuance component was found.