Organizational commitment and satisfaction of professionals and nonprofessionals in cooperatives

Abstract

Based on data from 90 professionally qualified and 79 nonprofessionally qualified managers in 9 cooperatives, professionals were found to have weaker organizational commitment (OC) than did nonprofessionals. Though the overall satisfaction levels were the same for the two groups, salient and nonsalient expectations satisfaction were found to explain OC of professionals while only nonsalient expectations satisfaction explained OC significantly in nonprofessionals. Implications for decision makers in cooperatives are drawn from these and other additional findings.