Multilevel Statistical Analysis of Job Satisfaction and Its Impact on Organizational Commitment

Job satisfaction is widely understood as a proximal attitudinal predictor of organizational commitment. However, workplace data are typically hierarchical because employees are embedded in teams, departments, and supervisory units. Single-level analyses cannot distinguish individual satisfaction effects from shared contextual influences. They also cannot test whether the strength of the satisfaction–commitment association differs across work units. This article specifies a multilevel statistical