Antecedents of Organizational Commitment: A Case of Banking Sector of Pakistan

In today’s work environment employees face many problems such as distrust, disempowerment, poor leadership and lack of support from the organization, the consequence of these factors is low commitment of employees towards their organization. Therefore, the basic objective of this paper is to examine the relationship of perceived organizational support, empowerment, perceived leadership behavior and trust to work setting with organizational commitment in banking sector of Pakistan. The data was collected through 170 questionnaires from the employees of banks in Pakistan. The factor, reliability, correlation and regression analysis were conducted through SPSS version 17. Trust to work setting, perceived leadership behavior, empowerment and perceived organizational support have positive and significant relationship with organizational commitment. Finally, this paper also discusses the theoretical and managerial implications of the results along with limitations and suggestions for future research.