Abstract:
Affective commitment has been highlighted as a key determinant of positive
organizational level outcomes by numerous international studies. However, the attempts
to explore the antecedents of affective commitment in the setting of Pakistani banking
sector have been rare. Affective commitment refers to the extent the employees are
emotionally attached to an organization and employees with higher levels of affective
commitment work for the organization because they want to.
This study’s rationale was to provide an insight into how Affective Commitment varies
and may be influenced by demographic and personal factors namely age, tenure and
management level. A random sample of 200 commercial bank employees in Lahore,
Pakistan was selected and disseminated a survey questionnaire. Results from the
ANOVA analysis revealed that on the whole, demographic factors did not have a strong
relationship with affective commitment, with only tenure showing a significant relation
with employees’ affective commitment level.
