Organizational Commitment and Qualification: A study of Private Sector Universities
Abstract
This study is conducted to investigate the level of affective, continuous, normative and the overall degree of organizational commitment (OC) of the faculty performing in the private sector universities situated in the Peshawar. There are nine universities conveying higher education in Peshawar city. Among 115 faculty members were selected as a sample comprises of both male and female faculty, considering their demographic variables. To measure affective, normative, continuous and total level of commitment cross tabulation was employed. The results reveals that overall level of commitment was at medium level however, master degree holders were more loyal as related to their higher-ranked colleague who hold MPhil and PhD degrees.
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