IMPACT OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF

Abstract

Organizational commitment is identified as a positive attitude of employees which is essential for any organization to achieve its objectives. Owing to the lacuna of knowledge on organizational commitment in university academic staff members in Sri Lankan context, the study aimed at finding out the impact of perceived organizational support on organizational commitment of academic staff. Employing the survey strategy, data were collected from 86 stratified randomly selected academic staff members representing all the five Faculties of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Data collection was done by using a self-administered questionnaire developed by using standard validated measurements. The results indicated that perceived organizational support positively affects on affective commitment to organization and normative commitment to organization. The results imply the importance of perceived organizational support in fostering organizational commitment of academic staff.