The importance of locus of control and its association with organizational commitment: a case study at Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) / Andrew Victor Nub William Tanyuh and Zellina Abd Rahman

Employees in an organization would normally possess a certain level of organization commitment for their organization, in the sense that how their organization commitments are would affect their performance in the organization. In this project, we are studying about MBSA employees on the importance of Locus of Control and Its association with organizational commitment. In relation to these two variables which are locus of control and organizational commitment, we are also looking at the moderating variable that is demographic background, on whether this variable has any moderating effect to the relationship of organizational commitment and locus of control. The objectives of this study are: To determine whether there is an association between and employees' gender, age, race, education background, status, income and department with locus of control. Secondly, to identify whether employees with internal locus of control are more committed to their organization. And third, to determine whether employees with different demographic background namely gender, age, race, ,education background, status, income and department has any influence toward their organizational commitment. From the finding we found that, it explained that importance of locus of control and its associations with organization commitment has the strong relation between each others. The study indicates that the association between employees' demographic backgrounds such as race, educational level, department and income toward their locus of control has some significant. Moreover, we also identified that the employees with internal locus of control have the high commitment toward their organization rather than employees which have external locus of control. Additionally, we found that the differences in employees' demographic background have no influence with employees.