A Study on the Impact of Psychological Capital on Organisational Commitment of Staff Employees of Lanka Sugar Company (Private) Limited, Sevanagala

Abstract

With the competitive business environment, sustainable competitive advantage is very much essential resources have become a sustainable competitive advantage and organizational commitment is the k goals of the organisations with high performance. When considering about this sugar factory, executives of the company explains employees directly involve, implement the decisions of executives and directly effect to the success of Even though the researcher found the idle behaviours of these staff employees such as eating, sleeping, b engage in their duties, and complaining about organization and anytime they ready to quit the company So that the researcher identified the issue with organizational commitment of staff employees. Further Considering the literature of organizational commitment (OC), psychological capital is positive the organizational commitment (Larson & Luthans, 2006 as cited in pillay, Buitendach & Kanengoni, 2 empirical research has found that organizational commitment has a correlation with the all d psychological capital (Sinha, Talwar & Rajpal, 2002; Youssef & Luthans, 2007 as cited in Simons & 2013). Accordingly current study was developed. Currently there are around 900 direct employees and 81 staff employees were selected as the population size was 66 based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table. Data were collected through self-administe questionnaire using validated and reliable scales developed by Allen and Mayer (1990) and Tuicomepee and, Watakakosol International Conference of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka - 2017 Copyright © ICSUSL-Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka 2017 42 (2013) adjusted to the Asian context and which is firstly d Youssef & Luthans (2007) for the Western context. Organisational commitment acted as the dependent variable where each dimension of psychological c self-efficacy, optimism, hope and resilience were the predictors of the study. Therefore multiple regre was performed. Pertaining to the previous findings, the current study didn’t find any impact of se organisational commitment in the selected context. Further there was a gap in the literature regards to the behaviours of employees in sugar factories of Sr researcher couldn’t find any research. So that. This study contributes to the existing literature as well a factory in order to gain and maintain a committed workforce.