Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships among personal characteristics of members in the organization, internal environment of organization, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction from the view of contingency approach. There are around 1200 subjects from four factories in this survey, including different age or career stage, education and occupational hierarchy. The questionnaire contains four parts. They are organization's internal environment scale, organizational commitment scale, job descriptive index, and demographical data respectively. The results will be divided into two parts. First, with regard to the career stages, education, and occupational hierarchy, they all have significant correlations with internal environmental perceptions. Second, with regard to the relationships among environmental perception, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, existence, relatedness, and growth environments all have significant correlations with organizational commitment and job satisfaction as well but they do not seem to be affected by the personal background and career stages of employers. Finally, the implications of this study in career management were discussed.