Impact of Organizational Climate, Role Ambiguity and Role Conflict on three Components of Organizational Commitment

Abstract

The research aimed to investigate the effects of role ambiguity, role conflict and organization climate facets i.e. (consideration, intimacy, disengagement, production, procedural justice, recognition, autonomy and distributive justice), on three dimensions of the organizational commitment i.e. affective commitment, normative commitment and continues commitment. The research is descriptive as well as co-relational in its nature based on qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample size is limited to 324 teachers out of 1698 private sector schools’ teachers working at diverse cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire served to 324 teachers from the sample schools drawn through proportion allocation method. The reliability and validity of questionnaire was passed through Cronbach’s Alpha and factor analyses. The analysis contains descriptive statistic to convert the data in percentages, structure equation model, Pearson correlation, t.test and multiple regression. The Pearson Correlation was performed to check out the relationship amid predictors and response variables. The multiple linear regression was used to investigate the cause and effect of independent variables on dependent variables and comparison of the respondent’s responses by utilizing t-test was employed.  Results of the study revealed all three critical factors i.e. role ambiguity, role conflict and organizational climate) have significant effect on the teacher’s job commitment i.e. (affective, continuance, normative. The research recommends that private school teachers should be trained, and their work environment should be made conducive. The research also suggests improvement of school facilities, class room environment, and adequate supply of teaching material.  The teacher’s welfare including attractive salary package, regular payment of salaries for better productivity, needs special attention. The futures research for in-depths examination of schools both public and private schools’ teachers on all around Pakistan to take hold of some of the other factors contributing towards the teacher’s job commitment. In future, the present hypotheses should be studied with some moderating and mediating variables in numerous samples from all provinces of Pakistan on longitudinal basis.