The relationship between the organizational commitment and job performance among employees at Industrial Training Institute in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak/ Noramal Amirah Mohd Zaid Koh

The Malaysian Government is continuously implementing The National Transformation Policy (NTP) in formulating and developing the Eleventh Malaysian Plan, hence it is time for Malaysia to focus more on organizational commitment among employees working in the public sectors in order to have high levels of job performance among employees in the organization. The objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between organizational commitment and job performance among public sector employees working in Industrial Training Institute Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Data were obtained from 86 employees who completed the questionnaire on organizational commitment and job performance. It is hypothesized that organizational commitment has really great impact on the job performance. There are three dimensional models of organizational commitment, namely affective commitment, continuous commitment and normative commitment. Results were analysed with normality, reliability and correlation tests. It was that found affective and normative commitment have significant positive relationship with job performance whereas continuance commitment has significant negative relationship with job performance. To conclude, the organizational commitment plays an important role in attaining the job performance among public sector employees in Industrial Training Institute Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. This paper also presents limitations and recommendations for future researcher.