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Organizational Commitment of
Employees of a Private Higher Institution
Elwin L. Taquiso
University of San Jose-Recoletos, Cebu City, Philippines
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DOI: 10.47760/cognizance.2025.v05i01.047
ABSTRACT: Organizational Commitment refers to the bond between the employee and the
organization where he/she feels fit in and has understood the organizational goals and objectives
thereby contributing actively to its attainment. The purpose of the study was to determine the
organizational commitment employees. Employing a quantitative research design, the study used
165 stayers and leavers. They answered a research questionnaire with a Likert scale. Statistical
techniques used were the mean and ANOVA – one way. Findings revealed that employees have
normative commitment who feel obligated to the organization although they are no longer happy
with the roles they perform. The study concludes that organizational commitment is the primary
reason why employees chose to stay.
INTRODUCTION
Employee turnover, habitual absence from work, and poor performance output are
significantly associated with non-commitment to an organization (Mowday, Steers &
Porter, 1979; Romzek, 1990). The organizational commitment approach is often viewed
as an affective attachment for an individual who shares the organization's values and
desires to serve. It is willing to exert effort on behalf of the institution (Mowday, Steers, &
Porter, 1979). Moreover, there are examinations of commitment associated with the
covenant of the individual's identification and contribution to the organization he/she is in.
(Porter et al., 1974). Further, commitment can also be considered passive loyalty, for it
encompasses a dynamic relationship manifested when individuals are willing to present
themselves to contribute to the organization's well-being (Mowday et al., 1979).
Employees who are strongly committed to an organization are least likely to leave
because their psychological state has already attached an individual to an
organization (Meyer, Allen, & Gellatly, 1990).
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ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
(Allen and Meyer, 1997)
Affective
Commitment
Normative Commitment
Continuance Commitment
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2008). Job satisfaction is "a positive emotional condition resulting from the evaluation of
one's job or job experiences" (Locke, 1993).
Job satisfaction may be tested as part of employee involvement, as it is a
combination of organizational commitment and intentions to stay (Ferguson, 2005). A
crude measurement of turnover would be (Morrell et al., 2001): leavers in a year over
the average number of employees multiplied by a hundred. Turnover intention is
defined as the mediating factor between attitudes affecting the intent to quit and quitting
an organization (Glissmeyer, Bishop, & Fass, 2008). A meta-analysis of the antecedents
and associates to employee turnover (Griffeth, Hom, & Gaertner, 2000), intention to
quit, job satisfaction, and organizational support were shown to be forecasters of
employee turnover. Job satisfaction is closely related to intentions to leave an
organization (Chen & Spector, 1992) and turnover intentions (Rusbult & Farrell, 1983;
Coomer & Barriball, 2007). Job satisfaction also was also shown to be associated
with employee health and psychological well-being ((İlhami, 2012). Increasing job
satisfaction subsequently decreases rates of turnover intentions (Hellman, 1997).
There is a negative connection between job satisfaction and turnover intention. In other
words, it was found in this study that job satisfaction is one of the most important
antecedents of organizational commitment and turnover intention of employees
(İlhami,2012). Employees, especially the skilled ones, are always searching for better
jobs, working environment and experience, and training to enhance their skills and
sustain their jobs. In the Philippine educational institutions, staff turnover is
continuously increasing, but it remains low in Mindanao (Kukano, 2011). The studies
on organizational commitment among teachers are quite not common.
Research in Vigan, Northern Philippines revealed that grade school teachers have
the least intensity of attachment, even though all of them find a sense of economic
security in the school (Tabuso, 2007).
Turnover intentions are among the strongest forecasters of actual turnover, and
organizational commitment is one of the most important precursors to turnover intention.
These findings underscored the importance of organizational commitment in retaining
employees and the appropriate use of intention to leave as the dependent variable
because of the link to actual turnover (Kuean et al., 2010).
The foregoing discussion provided the empirical background of the present study
on organizational commitment of employees.
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Research Method
The study used the descriptive research design with questionnaire as the main
data collection tool. The study was conducted at Southland College of Kabankalan City,
Negros Oriental, Philippines (9.9837° N, 122.8208° E). Southland College has a total of
110 employees. Eleven (11) full time permanent College Instructors, twelve (12) Full
Time probationary College Instructors, fourteen (14) full time permanent Basic Education
Faculty, Thirty-three (33) full time probationary Basic Education Faculty, thirty-five (35)
permanent Full Time non- teaching staff, and five probationary non- teaching staff.
Respondents of this study were the employees who have rendered service to the
Institution from Pre – school to College as well as those who left. These employees have
the age range of 21 to 65 years old and have served the institution for one (1) year 11
years. The age and length of service were part of the demographics as the researcher
would like to identify whether these factors have effects on the results of the study. These
employees were chosen since they have already served the institution for a long period
which means they have known the organizational culture well and much is expected of
them. The study employed the Likert scale modified to four (4) point scale to remove
uncertainties.
To those who left the institution, sampling was done as it will be difficult to reach
them as they have been in the different areas of the globe. From a total of sixty- three
noted turnover over the past ten years, a sample size of 55 was taken. The sample size
was determined using Cochran’s formula with the aid of the raosoft.com sample size
calculator.
The researcher collected data from the respondents through questionnaires that
require them to answer simple questions. The questionnaire was adapted from Meyer
and Allen (1997).
The survey questionnaire dealt with organizational commitment with a total of
twenty – four (24) items as it was composed of eight (8) questions per dimension was
adapted from Meyer and Allen (1997) in determining the level of organizational
commitment of the employee.
An informed consent form was signed by the respondents. The questions herein
were asked for the reason of determining the intention to remain working in this school
and the results will not affect the career in this school. The respondents were also
assured that their honesty is appreciated.
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ORGANIZATIONAL INTERPRETATION
COMMITMENT OF
EMPLOYEES Stayers Leavers Total
SD SD SD
Affective Commitment 2.52 2.44 2.48 Less Committed
Several factors stemmed from this sense of obligation from the investment of the
organization on training to the rewards given in advance like in faculty and staff
developments of various forms (Flamholtz, E. G. (1999). Employees who are bored
and unmotivated are in this type of commitment. They have the tendencies to block
enthusiastic employees to the extent of lowering the morale of the whole group (Mind
tools content team, 2020).
Proposal for normative commitment showed that this type of commitment
advances from a combination of socialization processes including early socialization like
socialization into family and culture and organizational socialization like newcomer
socialization into an organization. Strong messages about the appropriateness of
particular behaviors and attitudes are the results of the experience in socialization
(Wiener, 1982). These processes then lead an individual to acquire what is valued and
what is expected of them by their family, culture, and employing organizations as a
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CONCLUSION
The study concludes that both stayers and leavers exhibited a normative type of
commitment where employees feel obligated to perform tasks rather than the better
affective commitment where employees are attached to the vision and mission of the
organization. This is due to the fact that the school is only 11 years old and employees
come and go. Moreover, there is no concrete staff development program.
The organizational culture of the Institution encourages self – enhancement, allows
self-expression and nurture productivity. These characteristics of an organization
foster a bigger chance of employee retention.
Further, the concept that employees stay in an organization are committed does
not always stand correct for they also are having quit thoughts. In the same manner, not
all employees who have departed from the workplace are committed to quitting because
it just came at the right time and the reasons for quitting were not about the organization
but about serving the personal and family needs.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Develop employees retention program
2. Crating of staff development program to nourish organizational commitment
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Southland College of Kabankalan City, Inc., Administrators, Past and Present
Employees for the support.
Adviser, Dr. Ma. Lourdes C. Umlas for the expertise, motivation, and
encouragement to keep moving to complete this endeavor. For meticulously went over
the paper for hundred times to achieve veracity.
Members of the research panel, chaired by the Dean, Dr. Jestoni P. Babia, Dr.
Glenn G. Pajares, Dr. Sergio M. Sarza, Dr. Roxan A. Consolacion, for imparting
valuable insights and suggestions in transforming this study into an explicit one.
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