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Title	Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: An instrumental variable approach
Type	Journal article
Authors	Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Muñoz Torres, R.I. and Gourlay, S.
Abstract	The possible role of job satisfaction (JS) on organizational commitment (OC) has been a very important and hotly debated topic among experts. However, existing studies have yielded mixed results potentially due to utilization of small datasets, different methodological designs,estimation techniques that do not control for potential endogeneity between the variables, or a combination of these issues. Using a large matched employer-employee dataset from Britain (WERS2011), we find that increases in employees’ JS positively influence OC. We also show that this relationship holds when an instrumental variable framework (IV ordered probit/IV probit) is adopted to take into account the potential endogeneity of JS. However, throughout the analysis, the IV estimates are smaller in magnitude in comparison to where JS is considered as an exogenous variable. Moreover, utilising a two-stage probit least square (2SPLS) estimator, we support our previous findings i.e. increased JS is likely to lead to enhanced OC, but we also show that greater OC leads to higher levels of JS suggesting that JS and OC are likely to be reciprocally related. Overall, the IV estimates confirm the importance of addressing the endogeneity issue in the analysis of the relationship between JS and OC.
Keywords	Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; Endogeneity; Instrumental variable framework; WERS, Britain
Journal	International Journal of Human Resource Management
Journal citation	31 (13), pp. 1739-1769
ISSN	0958-5192
Year	2020
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Accepted author manuscript	IJHRM.pdf File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1423100
Published online	17 Jan 2018
Published in print	2020

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