EFFECT OF EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

ABSTRACT The study was generally aim at examine the effect of employee commitment on organizational performance while specifically was to examine the influence of affective employee Commitment, Continuance employee commitment on organizational performance and determine the extend at which normative commitment of employee influence organizational performance. with specific focus on staff of Bauchi meat factory located in Bauchi metropolis, the study covered fifty-six (56) both were senior and junior staff of the company. Considering the small population of the research participant of 56 staff, the technique adopted for this research is census. The collected data were coded and entered into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program according to each variable of the study and analyzed using descriptive statistics. From the research questions administered to Bauchi meat factory and analyzed, the following are the summary of the findings: Respondents agreed with the influence of Affective Employee commitment on organizational performance with grand mean of 3.97, respondents agreed with the extent of the influence of Continuous employee commitment on organizational performance with grand mean of 3.09. The also agreed with the extent to which the normative employee commitment influence organizational performance with grand mean of 4.07. This is a clear indication that employee commitment has a significance influence to a large extent on organizational’ performance in Bauchi meat production company. Based on the findings, the following recommendations are hereby suggested: Since it was found that there is a fairly high relationship between employee commitment and organizational performance, the management of companies are advised to hire employees who are likely to become linked to the organization. Before they hire workers, they will have to look for congruence between the individual’s values and goals and the organization’s values and goals. Values alignment and identification is central to every conceptualization of employee commitment. The organization must exhibit a high level of commitment to its employees. If employees are concerned about losing their jobs, there is very little likelihood of high level of employees’ commitment. If people are not given adequate resources, facilities and training they will not be likely to view the organization as being committed to them as well.