A Research on Employees' Organisational Commitment in Organisations: A Case of Smes in Malaysia
Shankar Chelliah1, N. Sundarapandiyan2, B. Vinoth2
Citation : Shankar Chelliah, N. Sundarapandiyan, B. Vinoth, A Research on Employees' Organisational Commitment in Organisations: A Case of Smes in Malaysia International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research 2015 , 3(7) : 10-19
Organizational commitment is a psychological construction of responsibility that an employee has towards the mission and direction of an organization. This study is to identify the Malaysian private organizations employees' perception of their jobs and how to improve their work commitment towards their organizations. The problem of many organizations today is not just to have more skillful and intellectual employees in each and every department, but also to find the right talented employees with positive attitude and commitment to their work. The employees of private organizations today, in Malaysia, are not fully satisfied with their jobs. If employees do not sense engaged they can spiral down into distrustful which could bring down their work involvement. This observation has brought about the purpose and need for this study, which is to find the factors, job satisfaction, job involvement and perceived organizational support influence, and organizational commitment of their employees through affective, continuance and normative types of commitments. This study also researches the relationship between organizational commitments of employees influenced by Job satisfaction, Job involvement, and perceived organizational support and affective or continuance or normative type commitments. The findings from the study confirms that job satisfaction, job involvement, and perceived organizational support influencing organizational commitment of employees by affective, continuance and normative type commitment are significantly positive and accepted. Normative and affective types of commitments have high influence in getting the employee's job involvement, job satisfaction and perceived organizations support