Factors affecting organizational commitment among university faculties of Nepal: A structural equation modeling approach

Abstract

University faculties are key players of academic world. Their commitment plays vital role to achieve the goal of the academic institutions. Even though much research has been conducted to explore the organizational commitment of the employees, commitment of university faculties was less investigated area. This paper aims to explore the factors affecting organizational commitment of the university faculties and examine the relationship between organizational commitment and its’ determinant factors. For this study, 312 Business School faculties were selected by using stratified sampling followed by simple random sampling from three universities of Nepal. By adopting exploratory factor analysis, five factors; work environment, work recognition, pay and compensation, unionism, and organizational commitment were extracted. The paper further examined the relationship between endogenous variable; organizational commitment and exogenous variables; work environment, work recognition, pay and compensation, and unionism by using structural equation modeling and path analysis. The result conformed that work environment, work recognition, pay and compensation are positively related with organizational commitment, but unionism is negatively related with it and relationships are statistically significant at 5% level of significance. Overall variance explained in endogenous variable by exogenous variables was 42%.

Keywords

• organizational commitment
• unionism
• work environment
• work recognition
• pay and compensation
• university faculties