INDIAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH STUDIES - Volume 5 Issue 2, July 23

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Normative Commitment Among Employees: Role of Perceived Organizational Support and Occupational Hardiness

Author: Varsha Anand

Category: Health Studies

Abstract:

The quality of employees' motivation, performance, and functioning has recently been acrucial topic among academics and practitioners looking for ways to improve employees' working experiences and organizational success. In this context present study intended to examine if perceived organizational support and occupational hardiness, as well as demographic variables (age and gender),can serve as indicators for normative commitment. In this study 415 employees from diverse private firms were selected through purposive sampling. Perceived organizational support scale, occupational hardiness questionnaire and normative commitment dimension of organizational commitment scales were administered. The obtained quantitative data were analyzed in terms of descriptivestatistics, Pearson r and hierarchical regression analysis. Finding revealed that out of the twelve predictors examined understudy eight predictors: extraeffort, employees' satisfaction, employees' well-being, improved performance, perceived organizational support as a whole, control along with two demographic variables (age and gender) were significantly correlated with normative commitment. It was observed that age, employee satisfaction, and control were significant predictors ofnormative commitment. The shortcomings, future directions, and implications were also discussed. Keywords: Hardiness, perceived organizational support, normative commitment, organizational commitment.

Keywords: Hardiness, perceived organizational support, normative commitment, organizational commitment.

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