ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AS AN OUTCOME OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: A SOCIAL EXCHANGE PERCEPTIVE USING A SEM MODEL Authors: Nagpal P
ABSTRACT
Employee engagement is gaining a pre-dominant edge in the field of HRM at existing epoch because of its
significance in the corporate world. The rationale behind this is, engagement plays a crucial role as an
antecedent towards employee performance, efficiency, competitive advantage, commitment and so forth. This
research paper is intended towards identifying the various factors contributing to employee engagement and its
association with the organizational commitment among Indian Information Technology (IT) Professionals. The
present study tries to explore the correlation existing if any, between employee engagement variables with
three dimensions of organizational commitment as affective, continuance and normative, with the theoretical
base of Social Exchange Theory. The study adopted cross sectional research with 750 software Professional as
respondents from 12 IT Companies. This study confirms employee engagement has a significant positive
impact on all the three organizational commitment starting with normative, affective and continuance
commitment.
Keywords: Antecedents, Employee Engagement, Organizational Commitment Publication date: 15/01/2022 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2022/January/MS_IJBPAS_2022_JAN_SPCL_1008.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.1008