Leadership of Supervisors and Work Motivation Predicting Organizational Commitment of Employees

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) study level of leadership of supervisors, work motivation, and organizational commitment of employees, 2) to study the relationship between leadership of supervisors and organizational commitment of employees, 3) to study the relationship between work motivation and organizational commitment of employees and 4) to predict organizational commitment of employees by using leadership of supervisors and work motivation. Population and sample in the study were employees of companies in retail business group who work in convenience stores in Thailand. The sample consisted of 199 persons. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Statistics used for data analysis were percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The study results indicated that 1) employees had a high level mean score of organizational commitment, work motivation and leadership of supervisors, 2) leadership of supervisors positively related to organizational commitment of employees, r = .675 with the statistical significance level of .01, 3) work motivation positively related to organizational commitment of employees, r = .679 with the statistical significance level of .01, 4) leadership of supervisors and work motivation could mutually predict organizational commitment of employees with the statistical significance level of .01, accounting for 51.3%.