IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION AMONG ACADEMIC STAFF OF KANO STATE POLYTECHNIC

ABSTRACT Organizational commitment is a strong belief and acceptance of an organization’s goals and values and a willingness to exert the considerable effort on behalf of an organization and a strong desire to remain with the organization. Consequently, this study examine the Impact of Organizational Commitment Employee Job Satisfaction among Academic Staff of Kano State Polytechnic. Organizational commitment serves as independent variable with the following dimensions normative commitment, affective commitment and continuance commitment while employee job satisfaction is the dependent variable of this study. A Sample size of 226 respondent were captured from the Academic Staff of Kano State Polytechnic, Nigeria out of the population of 550 through Krejcie and Morgan 1970 Table of sample size determination. Non probability sampling technique was used that involved convenience sampling technique and data were obtained through a structured close-ended questionnaire. Reliability test was used. Descriptive statistics that report the respondent’s profile was captured and inferential statistic that involve multiple regression analysis was used to test hypotheses of the study, using SPSS version 22. The results revealed that normative commitment as the first predicting variable under the study shows insignificant relationship with employee job satisfaction in Kano State Polytechnic, while affective and continuance commitment as the second and last predicting variable under the study, results shows positive and significant relationship with employee job satisfaction in Kano State Polytechnic. Therefore, on the basis of this findings it was recommended that Kano State Polytechnic should give particular attention to commitment of employees as it will enable job satisfaction among employees.