Impact of Employee commitment on Work Engagement: An Empirical study on IT Employees

Abstract

This study aims to examine the level of Employee Commitmentand Work Engagement of employees in the IT sector and to determine the impact that employee commitment has on their work engagement. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and the data was collected through questionnaire method. The sample size for the study is 104 IT employees residing in Bangalore city. The initial part of the questionnaire comprised of the demographic questions and the latter part of the questionnaire comprises of the 24-item Employee commitment scale developed by Allen & Meyer in 1990 and the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli & Bakker (2003). The employee commitment scale possesses three dimensions namely Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment and Normative Commitment. The work engagement scale too possesses three dimensions namely Vigor, Dedication and Absorption. Through this study, the authorintends to identify the scores of the three sub-dimensions of Employee commitment and Work engagement of IT employees. The reliability of the scales was measured using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Statistical techniques such as Independent sample T-test, One Way Analysis of Variance, Correlation analysis and Multiple regression analysis were used to test the formulated hypotheses.