Factors influencing employee commitment and why employee commitment is essential for achieving work performance

Employee commitment could be a critical issues needed to be handled well to ensure organizational success. In this case, we need to find out the factors that would have impacts on the employee commitment to ensure employee commitment. The two factors that we would discussed further on would be disparities in experience and education as well as workplace fairness.

Disparities could have negative impacts on the employee commitment when the leaders has less education, work experience, or organizational tenure that the employees, and this is also what we called status incongruence (CBIA 2016). Employees usually would not feel attachment to the organization when they feel their leaders are less qualified than they are. Researchers have found that status incongruence would weakened the employee commitment and also affective commitment, which is an attachment that the employees have on the organizations that keep them for staying longer. Apart from this, research also shown that women need to have higher credentials to prove their abilities before their employees would commit to them and trust that they have the abilities to lead them into success (CBIA 2016).

Workplace fairness is deemed to be important by the employees, which means that they need to feel that they could trust their leaders so they would commit to their work (Seifert et al. 2015). Involvement in the decision making process usually have impacts on employees’ expectations about how their future in the organizations would look like as they would predict what their leaders are likely to do and how they would execute their decision in the future. If the employees trust their leaders, they would have positive expectations on the outcome favorability and procedural fairness and hence, increase their commitment.  

CBIA. (2016). Factors affecting employee commitment [online]. Available at: https://www.cbia.com/news/hr-safety/factors-affecting-employee-commitment/ [Accessed 3 April 2019].

Seifert, M., Brockner, J., Bianchi, E. C. & Moon, H. (2015). How workplace fairness affects employee commitment [online]. Available at: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-workplace-fairness-affects-employee-commitment/ [Accessed 3 April 2019].