Organizational factors affecting employees' commitment: a study of Global Soap and Detergent Industry, Ilorin
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2017
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Department of Sociology, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti
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All commitment-based organizations have come to term with believe that employees organizational commitment contributes in no small measure to workforce stability, better customer service, increase business performance and productivity. In this study therefore, the researchers explore the factors which are likely to affect employees' organisational commitment in a manufacturing industry. A quantitative survey was conducted and data was collected by personally administered questionnaires from 147 respondents consisting of both management and staff if Global Soaps and Detergent Industry Ilorin. The data collected was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics including Chi square and SPSS version 20. The results reveal that there is a significant relationship between different organizational commitment of staff of the industry. Regression Co-efficient results also show that all factors that predict organizational commitment are positively related. Factors affecting the organizational commitment of the workers include rewards, support from supervisor, favourable conditions of the job among others. This study has implications for managers HR practitioners by exerting efforts in a way that organisations can easily retain their experienced human capital and reduce turnover. The findings also recommend that commitment-based organizations need to continue to reinforce organizational support for their staff to strengthen organisational commitment.
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organization, employees, commitment