Organizational commitment: a study of employees in local authority organization in Sarawak / Nurnazirah Jamadin and Mohd Khairul Azha Azahari

This study intends to identify the level of affective, continuance, and normative commitment of the employees in the Asian contexts. This study also intends to determine the influence of personal variables of employees of local authority organization to the organizational commitment. Survey data were obtained from 105 respondents. Data were collected using a questionnaire that was developed by Allen and Meyer (1990). This study applies western theories in non – western context environment. Results suggest that while organizational commitment of the employees can be conceptualized in term of affective, economic based, and moral attachment to the organization, normative commitment was found to have the most influential in the organizational commitment. The results of this study also found that the employee of the local authority organization who participates in this study shows that they have a weak affective commitment. Future research need to be conducted in order to investigate other facet of organizational constructs that influence the organizational commitment and also identifying factors that influence the organizational commitment as well its consequences to the organization as a whole.