PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT (POS) AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
ABSTRACT: Human resource is
critically important aspect of organizations. The functions and roles of human
resource have developed from administrative matter into supporting the
organization to run the managerial and strategic processes. Expertise,
knowledge, and experience of existing human resources in organizations should
be suitable and allocated at the right time and place. By properly manage the
human resources, organization would be able to obtain qualified human resources
that have high commitment to organization. High commitment to organizations
will lead to a higher effort in supporting organizational success. In order to
gain employees’ commitment to the organizations, management should put some
efforts that ensure all aspects of employees’ commitment are fulfilled. This
paper is intended to find the significant influence of perceived organizational
support (POS) on the dimensions of employee’s commitment, comprising of the
affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment, and to
find which one of those dimensions are dominantly influence by POS. This paper
employed 50 respondents that were sampled using convenient random sampling.
Result showed that there were significant influences of POS on employee’s
commitment either in affective commitment. POS can influence the employees’
organizational commitment in all dimensions. This implies that in order to
improve organizational commitment, management should provide appropriate
managerial supports and ensure that the supports are in line with employee’s
aspirations and needs.
Keywords: Perceived
Organizational Support, Organizational Commitment
Penulis: Dian Ekowati, Mirza Andini
Kode Jurnal: jpmanajemendd080118
