An Empirical Study on Comparing the Organizational Commitment of Employees across Four Sector Organizations in China

Abstract

Aims: Organizational commitment (OC) is one of employees’ attitudes toward their organizations. The study aims at comparing the organizational commitment level of employees across four sector organizations to explore whether OC is influenced by organizational characteristics (type) or not. Study Design: A questionnaire survey-based ANOVA research design was used. Place and Duration of Study: Four sector organizations in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, China, between August, 2012 to September, 2013. Methodology: In this research, we have used a three-dimensional scale of OC.Taking governmental institutions, public service agencies, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in Kunming as the sample, data was collected from 453 employees distributed in 16 organizations across four different sectors. SPSS will be used to compare the means on organizational commitment across four sectors Results: F values of AC, CC, NC, OC, are larger than F0.01(3,449)=4.61. And all the corresponding probability values are 0.000 less than 0.01.Therefore, the hypothesis H0: the mean of each OC variable from four different sector organizations has no significant difference, has been rejected while the hypothesis H1: the mean of AC,CC,NC,OC in the four sector organizations has a significant difference, has been accepted. Conclusion: There is a significant difference on OC level or three dimensions (AC, NC or CC) level across four sector organizations. And they vary with organizational characteristics. Both AC and CC of employees in governmental institution are found to be higher than those of the other three sectors of organizations while NC of state-owned enterprises’ employees was found to be highest among these four organizations. Whatever organization it is, its continuance commitment was found to be the lowest among the three commitment dimensions. The total OC level of public service agencies is lowest and that of governmental institution is highest among these four sectors.