Organizational Commitment, Employee Performance, and Regret: A Correlational Study

Abstract

Organizational commitment plays a major role in a corporate setup with respect to an employee’s performance and feelings of regret. This study investigated the correlations between organizational commitment and employee performance, and organizational commitment and feelings of regret in an employee working in that organization. This was a quantitative study that hypothesized a positive correlation between organizational commitment and employee performance and a negative correlation between organizational commitment and regret. Data collection was done through questionnaires that included the Organizational commitment scale by Dhar, Mishra, and Srivastava in 2008, the Decision regret scale by O’Connor in 1996, and IWPQ (Individual work performance questionnaire) among 100 participants of proportionate fifty males and fifty females. Product moment correlation was done to analyze the correlation between the aspects and previous research was analyzed to sum up the already existing theoretical knowledge of the three components to be analyzed which were Organizational commitment, regret, and employee performance. A significant correlation, both positive and negative was determined from Organizational commitment and employee performance, and organizational commitment and regret, respectively. The hypothesis was thus proven true in the study.