Employee Involvement Case Study

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction and Problem Statement

1.1 Introduction

In today’s business environment, firms know that employees are their inimitable assets and that the employees should be considered an endowment from the labor market to the firm. Theorists and practitioners of this subject have inferred that organizations are structured by three main paradigms: (1) Organizations are social systems in which activities are ruled by social work laws and psychological laws; (2) organizations are formed based on people’s common interests, through which management and employees work in collaboration to achieve organizational objectives and individuals’ goals; and (3) organizations endeavor to recruit and maintain good employees through ethical and

The two variables are considered to influence some work-related behaviors independently. Job involvement is defined as a belief descriptive of an employee's relationship with the present job. Employees who display high levels of organizational commitment and of job involvement may be the least likely to engage in the voluntary turnover process because they are Involved in and committed to both the job and the organization, O'Reilly and Chatman (1986) report that job involvement is a consequent outcome of psychological commitment to an organization.

Employee job involvement and organizational commitment are illustrated extensively in the prominent management and behavioral sciences literature as focal subjects in the connection between individuals and organizations. Employee job involvement and organizational commitment are the elements that endorse the connection of the individual to the organization. Employees are considered involved and committed within an organization when they willingly continue their involvement and engagement with the organization and dedicate substantial effort to accomplish organizational

Both elements are essential for the successful attainment of organizational and professional goals in Lebanese public sector, a sector which has remained unexplored by researchers. The study of employee commitment and job involvement should be an important component of the Lebanese public sector, given that the Lebanese ministries handle a large number of employees and is the key role in leading the Lebanese country.

No previous studies have been performed on the commitment of the employees of the Lebanese public sector. The primary role of this paper is to link employee job involvement to organization commitment, were this paper tackles the need for commitment in our Lebanese public sector that will improve our ministries work and role in our country.

1.5 Research Model and