The nexus of employee’s commitment, job satisfaction, and job performance: An analysis of FMCG industries of Pakistan

Muhammad Asif Qureshi,Jawaid Ahmed Qureshi,Noor Ahmed Brohi,Shahzad Qaiser,Jalil Ahmed Thebo,Ghulam Mustafa Shaikh,Alan Nankervis

doi:10.1080/23311975.2019.1654189

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dimensions of job satisfaction and organizational commitment by using a more comprehensive approach to address job performance. The structural equation modeling analyses have been used to analyze the data collected from managers of fast-moving consumer goods. This study strives to examine the role of normative organizational commitment, affective organizational commitment, and continuous organizational commitment in predicting individuals’ job satisfaction, which further leads to job performance. The findings of the confirmatory factor analysis establish the excellent model fitness of the studied model. Furthermore, the results of structural equation modeling conclude that the significant association of all three forms of commitment to affect the job satisfaction of employees positively. The results indicate that normative commitment is the most influential form of organizational commitment, while continuous commitment is the least influential in impacting job satisfaction. Furthermore, the outcomes established a significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and job performance of employees of the fast-moving consumer goods sector of Pakistan.

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Job Commitment is an indicator of an employee’s loyalty, professional attachment, and job pleasure
In compliance to the significance of the association among the two variables, the current study aims to provide the in-depth understanding regarding the role of job satisfaction and organizational commitment amidst employees to augments the employee’s job performance in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry of Pakistan
The results indicate that normative commitment is the most influential form of organizational commitment, while continuous commitment is the least instrumental in impacting job satisfaction

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Job Commitment is an indicator of an employee’s loyalty, professional attachment, and job pleasure. It tends to reflect the level of fulfillment; an individual feels from his nature of work, ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Muhammad Asif Qureshi earned his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from University Utara Malaysia (UUM), Malaysia in 2018. His area of interest is human resource management, organizational behavior, supervisor support, job satisfaction, fairness perception, and quantitative research methods. He has published research papers in clarivate analytics indexed journals, Scopus indexed journals and other indexed journals. He has good command over PLS-SEM and other quantitative techniques.

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