Abstract:
Organizational commitment, the spirit of the organization is essential for the success of any
organization. To determine the research problem researcher conducted a pilot survey and base on the
survey result, it was able to determine that there is a low level of organizational commitment within
the executive level employees in National Development Bank PLC in Southern province. Based on the
literature researcher identified that psychological empowerment is one of a factor affecting on
organizational commitment. This study aimed to determine the impact of psychological empowerment
on organizational commitment with respect to the research context. Population of the study was
consist with 90 of executive employees. Researcher used census method to collect data by using selfadministrated questionnaire and all so used two models to find out the impact of both variables.
Researcher used simple regression analysis for Model A to find out the impact of psychological
empowerment on organizational commitment and multiple regression analysis for Model B to find out
impact of four dimensions of psychological empowerment on organizational commitment. Final
results emphasized that psychological empowerment and four dimensions of meaning, competence,
self determination, and impact have impacted on organizational commitment of executive level
employees in National Development Bank PLC in Southern province. This research finding will be
mostly supportive for management to reduce the unfavorable psychological circumstances and
enhance the organizational commitment within the organization. Moreover future researchers can
apply this study for different context.
