Factors Affecting Organizational Commitment of Employees of Autonomous University

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the degree of organizational commitment of employees of the autonomous university and 2) to study the factors affecting organizational commitment of the employees working for a n autonomous university. The samples were included with 384 persons of the employees of state’s supervised university by stratified proportional sampling method. The data collected by using questionnaire, estimation. The statistics used in this research were percentage, mean, standard deviation, coefficient correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The result shows that, 1) the degree of organizational commitment of employees of an autonomous university is overall found to be high and 2) there was a positive relationship between the organization justice, job satisfaction and organizational commitment whereas the job burnout was negative relationship on organizational commitment. Considering the factors affecting organizational commitment of employees of autonomous university, there are 2 variables of organization justice (compensation, information) that could predict organization commitment at 20.1 percent with statistics significance at 0.01, 5 variables of job satisfaction (mastery, job description, environment, interpersonal and salary) could predict organizational commitment at 35.7 with statistics significance at 0.01 and 3 variables of job burnout could predict organizational commitment as cynicism, decrease personal accomplishment with statistics 0.01 and emotion exhaustion with statistics 0.05. All 3 variables could predict organizational commitment at 30 percent.

Keywords: Organizational Commitment, Employee, University