Page No 69-78
C. R. Darolia, Parveen Kumari, and Shashi Darolia
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
This study explored the extent to which perceived organizational support, work
motivation, and organizational commitment predict individual differences in job
performance workers. We expected positive relationship between POS, WM, and
OC, and their substantial contribution in predicting job performance. 231 male
skilled workers (28-45 yrs.) from different units of National Fertilizer Ltd. India
participated in the study and completed Perceived Organizational Support
Questionnaire, Employees Motivation Schedule, and Occupational Commitment
Questionnaire. The job performance of the participants was rated by their immediate
superiors through Performance Rating Scale. The findings supported the hypotheses
of modest level positive correlation between POS, OC, and WM and their significant
contribution in determining job performance. Among all the three classes of predictor
variables, POS showed highest correlation with job performance followed by WM
measure monetary gains, and affective commitment. Continuance commitment,
need for goal achievement and competition, and non financial rewards have shown
modest level association with performance. The stepwise regression identified a
set of five variables which predicted best the job performance. In close agreement
with social exchange views, perceived organizational support appeared to be most
potent predictor of job performance. Two components of work motivation, i.e.,
need for monetary gains and goal achievement and competition were found
contributing significantly to the prediction of job performance. It points to the
importance of extrinsic sources of motivation for lowly paid industrial workers but
at the same time they value intrinsic sources also. Among three components of
OC, affective and continuance commitments were the better predictors of JP
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