Search for Predictors: A Study on the Job Involvement among Administrative Level Employees

Abstract

Studies pertaining to Human Resource Management have revealed a variety of factors that significantly affect employee‟s attitude towards their jobs not the least of which is their perception about the immediate job environment or the psychological climate. This study tries to assess the level of job involvement of administrative employees at public sector undertaking and identify the predictors there of. The study was carried out using a structured questionnaire, which was completed by 40 respondents. The study consists of educated, experienced and mature members of administrative cadre. Apart from a few background questions, the questionnaire was designed to generate data on job involvement, two measures of personal attributes and ten dimensions of organizational climate. Regression analysis of the data helped in identifying one critical predictor of job involvement which belongs to personality traits. Demographic factors like age, gender, designation and number of years of experience have found no influence on job involvement. But marital status was found to have positive correlation with job involvement. In the present study it was found that personal attributes alone can influence the level of job involvement. This gives an exceptional finding to the basic theorem postulated by researchers on job involvement.