ALTRUISM AND EMPLOYEES’ COMMITMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
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This study examined the relationship between altruism and employee commitment of local government area staff in Rivers State. The study a cross sectional survey design, solicited responses from the employees of the 23 local government areas of Rivers State using the simple random technique. The sample size for this study was 379 from the given population of six Local Government Areas. After data cleaning, data of 316 respondents were finally used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics and the Spearman rank order correlation were used for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Empirical findings revealed that there is a positive significant relationship between altruism and employee commitment of local government staff in Rivers state. The study thus concluded that altruism bears a positive and significant influence on employee commitment and all the dimensions and measures show significant positive relationships. We recommended that local government authorities should strive to show devotion to organizational members through acts of benevolence, care and concern, in order to be assured of their high level of commitment to work.
Keywords: Altruism, Employees’ Commitment, Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment and Normative Commitment
CITATION: Georgewill, O. S., & Ekpa, I. H. (2021). Altruism and employees’ commitment of local government areas in Rivers State, Nigeria. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 8 (1), 115 – 123.
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