1.1 Background
The issue of human resources is essentially human problems. Development of human resources is the construction human in Vietnam has sufficient human stature, qualities, standards, ethics, enough to undertake the work assigned. After more than 25 years of innovation, along with the process of industrialization and modernization of the country, the working class of our country has made positive changes, increase in number, diversity of structure, quality increased gradually. In the process of economic development - social Vietnam, jobs and lives of the working class is increasingly improved. Increasing number of universities. As of early 2007, Vietnam has 143 colleges, universities, academies; 178 colleges; 285 secondary schools and 1,691 professional and vocational training institutions. The country has 74 schools and the high school for gifted with a total of 47.5 thousand students in 63/64 provinces and cities under central and 7 universities. Percentage of high school students specializing in comparison with the total population of the country reached 0.05%, accounted for very low compared to the world.
But how to management employees, make them feel satisfied with their current job and have organizational commitment is not easy. So in each organization three main factors of the operational effectiveness of the organization: job satisfaction, job environment and job involvement.
This study research the relationship between job satisfaction, job involvement and organizational commitment in employees’ education to make more productive of the organization to achieve the goal.
1.2 The urgency of topic
Along with the advances of science and technology and especially in the context of the economy switched toward knowledge-based development, the human resources become competitive factors leading organizations and enterprises . Many organizations and businesses are facing the problem of human resources available in the company is gradually "exhaustion" work motivation, job-hopping leads to risk or decrease
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performance. How to remedy this situation is a major concern of the human resources management and organizational leadership. To attract and maintain high-quality human resources, apart from performing good recruitment, planning, appointment and training of staff, the work performance assessment, payroll system, bonus, ... the organizations / companies should develop policies and incentives encourage suitable thereby encouraging shut highest contribution of staff to the development of the organization.
One of the important criteria to assess the level of management of human resources which is "The satisfaction of employees for organizations". The management and staff satisfaction is the way to build loyalty Their for organizations / businesses, make employees love the job, sticking with colleagues, found optimism in the environment, thereby binding them with the organization's goals and striving for position that goal.
Surveying the relationship between employee satisfaction and commitment to work is one of the tools helping employees can express their thoughts and aspirations for career development and help managers understand human psychology and the desire of employees thereby maximizing the capacity and enthusiasm in their work and constantly improve policies to develop human resources.
1.3 Research question
The following research questions and objectives will be treated in this study:
Research questions :
What is the relationship between job involvement and job satisfaction
What is the association between organizational commitment and job involvement.
What is the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
1.4 Rerearch aim and objective
This research will identify the relationship between job involvement and job satisfaction to find the association between organizational commitment and job involvement, research the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Objectives of the study including:
(i) Systemize the theoretical model of satisfaction of employees for the agency, which builds models from studies evaluating the relationship between the organization's
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commitment to the satisfaction of employees and participate of them in working in Ho Chi Minh University of Foreign Languages and Information Technology (HUFLIT).
(ii) Identify the factors that are important in assessing the impact on the satisfaction level of employees for HUFLIT.
(iii) Suggest some recommendation for management agencies to improve the level of satisfaction of employees for HUFLIT.
1.5 The organization under the investigation
Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages – Information Technology (HUFLIT) was founded on October 26th, 1994 according to Decision 616/TTg of the Prime Minister on the foundation of the non-state Saigon School of Foreign Languages and Information Technology established in 1992.
Over the past 20 years, by the collective efforts of school teachers, HUFLIT became non-public universities are social appreciate the quality of training. The University has established international relationships with universities in the region and the world. In addition, the University has contributed positively, effectively socialized into career education, the construction and economic development - the culture of the country.
HUFLIT's greatest objective is to educate and train intellectuals to gain a tertiary education, having knowledge related to a specialized field as well as to good practical and professional skills that meet the needs of the market economy (HUFLIT, 2015).
1.6 Justification and Limitation of the study
The difficulties of students doing thesis ever recorded at universities around the world including: Lack of authentic cultural studies; The difficulty with these requirements and other crises in life; Support services and facilities are not adequate; Limited access to the object and background research; Lack of understanding of fundamental research process; Personality factors, factors of professional and organizational factors.
In addition, according to Ghauri and Gronhaug (2010), the more difficult of students doing thesis is to collect valid data, especially in companies, state agencies. The main limitation of the study is limited to information on companies and agencies. Some
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researchers like Cavusgil and Das (1997) mentioned that cross-cultural studies with large sample numbers and diversity in order to make these arguments and more accurate data.
1.7 Scope of Research
Regarding the scope of the research study, workers study surveyed workers who directly and indirectly working in HUFLIT (excluding managers). Business survey of primary data collection in order to serve the research topics conducted 02 months (beginning in 2015). In addition, the collection of secondary data (statistical yearbooks over the years, downloaded on the website) are used during matching time of the study of topic.
1.8 Structure of the paper
The structure of the paper composed of 5 chapters supporting the research process that intends to answer the question of “What is the relationship between the job involvement and job satisfaction in HUFLIT”, “What is the association between organizational commitment and job involvement.” And “What is the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment?”. The desertation has involved 5 chapters includes:
Chapter 1: The introduction indicates the relationship between the job involvement and job satisfaction in HUFLIT.
Chapter 2: The literature review chapter attempts to critically review existing academic sources relevant to this topic.
Chapter 3: The methodology explains the philosophical approach adapted for the purpose of this study and justifies the mixed method approach taken.
Chapter 4: Data analysis presents an overview of the findings and provides analysis and discussion of the key findings in reference to the reviewed literature, and makes recommendations. Finally, the conclusion chapter summarises the research paper.
Chapter 5: Conclusion and recomendation
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Sub-conclusion for Chapter 1
Thus, Chapter 1 has an overview of the research include things like the urgency of the subject; research objectives; object and scope of the study; Research Methods; texture of the subject.
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