THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF EXECUTIVE LEVEL EMPLOYEES IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE

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.