Title: FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYEE’S COMMITMENT: IN CASE OF TEXTILE AND GARMENT INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Authors: Abayneh Kebede, Eyob Abraha and Agimas Azimaraw
Abstract:

Committed employees are one of the greatest assets of any organization and play a major role in overall organizational efficiency and performance. A study was conducted to determine factors affecting employee commitment in textile and garment industry research and development center and to identify the factors that influencing the employee commitment. For the study the mixed type research design was used and both primary and secondary sources of data were collected. There were 175 total population of the research and from these 121 employees were selected by using Yaman’s formula. The survey questionnaires were distributed, the response of the participants was collected accordingly and the data were analysed by using SPSS version 26. Various statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, analysis of reliability, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression analysis were utilized to evaluate the data obtained. According to the correlation and regressions analysis of hypothesis test result there was significant effect of selected factors on employee commitment. Based on study training and performance appraisal moderately and compensation and reward highly affect employee commitment. The adjusted R² is 0.559 and this indicates that the cumulative effect of all three variables on employee commitment is 55.9%. Thus, the remaining 44.1 % depend on other factors. The result of the study revealed that from the three selected factors major predictors of employee commitment is compensation and reward and it was recommended to improve this factor by giving emphasis to improve employee commitment. The results from this research will be used as a guideline to promote employee commitment to enhance the performance of the organization and at the same time it will serve to various other public organization who can apply these findings to their organization management.

Keywords: Employee Commitment, Training, Performance appraisal, Compensation and Reward
Date of Publication: 25-07-2024
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