ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF TEACHERS: CASE OF UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB

• Published in: Pakistan economic and social review Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 363 - 386
• Main Author: Sheikh, Labiba
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lahore Knowledge Bylanes 31.12.2017; University of the Punjab, Department of Economics
• Subjects: Absenteeism; Analysis; Behavior; Case studies; Citizenship; College faculty; College professors; Colleges & universities; Correlation analysis; Decision making; Employees; Focus groups; Gender; Job satisfaction; Management science; Marital status; Objectives; Occupational stress; Organizational behavior; Organizational citizenship behaviour; Organizational commitment; Qualitative research; Role stress; Social interaction; Teachers; Tenure; Universities and colleges; India
• ISSN: 1011-002X; 2224-4174

The current research was conducted to identify the important antecedents and major consequences of organizational commitment and to explain their relationship with the commitment level of the teachers (lecturers and assistant professors) of the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of the University of the Punjab (PU). This research was a case study in which teachers of the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of the University of the Punjab (PU) were taken as the subject of the case analysis. The case was built by gathering information from teachers by using qualitative research tools. Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews of the teachers were conducted. Several important findings emerged from the study. First was that the determinants of organizational commitment were quite varied in their nature. Commitment to organization was influenced by a number of personal factors (age, length of service, gender, marital status) and job related factors (role stress, nature of social interaction, extent of participation in decision making and quality of work experiences). It also became evident that developing commitment among faculty members had significant consequences for educational institutions. This study showed that highly committed faculty members were keen to stay with their current organization and perform at higher levels than their uncommitted colleagues. It was also observed that highly committed faculty members showed lower absenteeism rates. In addition to this, highly committed teachers were more enthusiastic and were more inclined to perform organizational citizenship behaviors.