Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment
Malaysian banking sector is facing commitment challenge of their employees especially in the current highly competitive business environment. Now banks want to retain and engage their competent employees so there is a need to create or enhance their affective commitment because this affective commit...
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| author | Ashfaq, Muhammad Qureshi, Muhammad Imran Irum, Sobia Ismail, Fadillah Husna, Rabeatul |
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| description | Malaysian banking sector is facing commitment challenge of their employees especially in the current highly competitive business environment. Now banks want to retain and engage their competent employees so there is a need to create or enhance their affective commitment because this affective commitment is a key to retain and engage competent employees. Previous research explains that effective commitment provide employees emotional attachment with their organisation so there is a need to explore those factors through which organisations can develop the affective commitment of their employees. Healthy amount of research has been conducted to deal with employee attitude and commitment. As time goes on new concepts are coming up with new management ideas. One such new area of research is workplace spirituality. Previous research in this field discovered numerous benefits of workplace spirituality to the organization and employee as well as organizational and employee development, and commitment. Literature review pointed out that Malaysian banking sector is facing the problem of employee commitment. Present research is an attempt to deal this problem of employee commitment with the help of workplace spirituality along with psychological contract as a mediator. Subjects for this research were 350 bank employees working in commercial banks in Malaysia. Structural equation modelling SEM – PLS was the main statistical technique utilized in this study. All the main relationships were found to have significant effect on employees affective commitment, Overall, the results indicate that the model provide good understanding of the workplace spirituality‟s influence on employees commitment in banking sector of Malaysia. |
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| spelling | uthm-54062022-01-09T06:50:07Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5406/ Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment Ashfaq, Muhammad Qureshi, Muhammad Imran Irum, Sobia Ismail, Fadillah Husna, Rabeatul HD58.7-58.95 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture Malaysian banking sector is facing commitment challenge of their employees especially in the current highly competitive business environment. Now banks want to retain and engage their competent employees so there is a need to create or enhance their affective commitment because this affective commitment is a key to retain and engage competent employees. Previous research explains that effective commitment provide employees emotional attachment with their organisation so there is a need to explore those factors through which organisations can develop the affective commitment of their employees. Healthy amount of research has been conducted to deal with employee attitude and commitment. As time goes on new concepts are coming up with new management ideas. One such new area of research is workplace spirituality. Previous research in this field discovered numerous benefits of workplace spirituality to the organization and employee as well as organizational and employee development, and commitment. Literature review pointed out that Malaysian banking sector is facing the problem of employee commitment. Present research is an attempt to deal this problem of employee commitment with the help of workplace spirituality along with psychological contract as a mediator. Subjects for this research were 350 bank employees working in commercial banks in Malaysia. Structural equation modelling SEM – PLS was the main statistical technique utilized in this study. All the main relationships were found to have significant effect on employees affective commitment, Overall, the results indicate that the model provide good understanding of the workplace spirituality‟s influence on employees commitment in banking sector of Malaysia. Science Publishing Corporation (SPC) 2018 Article PeerReviewed Ashfaq, Muhammad and Qureshi, Muhammad Imran and Irum, Sobia and Ismail, Fadillah and Husna, Rabeatul (2018) Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (3.3). pp. 369-373. ISSN 2227-524X http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.30.18335 |
| spellingShingle | HD58.7-58.95 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture Ashfaq, Muhammad Qureshi, Muhammad Imran Irum, Sobia Ismail, Fadillah Husna, Rabeatul Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| title | Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| title_full | Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| title_fullStr | Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| title_short | Mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| title_sort | mediating role of psychological contract in the relationship between workplace spirituality and affective commitment |
| topic | HD58.7-58.95 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture |
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