Organizational Commitment among Public Sector Employees: A Case Study in Universiti Utara Malaysia

The study of organizational commitment has paid little attention to the dynamic process of change in organizational commitment within the context of important of people in the organizational which are prevalent today and have a critical effect on the employee-organization
relationship. The purpose of the present study is to develop understanding of organizational commitment and to examine whether there is a relationship between job
satisfaction, leadership style, job performance with organizational commitment. The data for this study were collected from 234 administrative staff of University Utara Malaysia, and selected randomly from one of the Higher Learning Institution in Kedah. The findings from this study were indicated that there were significant relationship between job satisfaction, leadership style and job performance with organizational commitment. This is confirming that job satisfaction, leadership style and job performance is very important to ensure that the organization's goals achieved as a whole. Hence, Human Resource Managers should take pro active to improve better job environment and ensuring the organizational commitment among the employees.