Gender and age differences between managers and employees on organisational commitment in selected factories in the Buffalo City Metropolitan area

Qwabe, Nombali Palesa

Title: Gender and age differences between managers and employees on organisational commitment in selected factories in the Buffalo City Metropolitan area
Creator: Qwabe, Nombali Palesa
Subject: Employee loyalty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Organizational commitment -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Sex discrimination -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Executives -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Employee morale -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Employee motivation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Employee retention -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Labor turnover -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Organisational commitment
Subject: Affective commitment
Subject: Continuance commitment
Subject: Normative commitment
Subject: Gender differences
Subject: Age differences
Date: 2013
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MCom (Industrial Psychology)
Identifier: vital:11557
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007117
Identifier: Employee loyalty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Organizational commitment -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Sex discrimination -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Executives -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Employee morale -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Employee motivation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Employee retention -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Labor turnover -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Organisational commitment
Identifier: Affective commitment
Identifier: Continuance commitment
Identifier: Normative commitment
Identifier: Gender differences
Identifier: Age differences
Description: Employee commitment is one of the most important aspects that help an organisation achieve its desired goals. This study investigates the possible effects of gender and age differences between managers and employees on organisational commitment among lower-level employees in selected factories in the Buffalo City Metropolitan area. The organisational commitment instrument used in this research is the Meyer and Allen (1997) organisational commitment questionnaire which contains 18 items (6 items for each scale: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment). For this purpose, a sample of 100 lower-level employees was used. The results indicated significant differences in the unexpected directions in affective commitment and continuance commitment between male employees supervised by male managers and male employees supervised by female managers; male employees were found to have higher levels of affective and continuance commitment when supervised by female managers. Female employees were found to have a higher level of normative commitment when supervised by male managers than when supervised by female managers which was also in the unexpected direction. In addition, the study showed surprising results in terms of the social or cultural hypothesis where employees supervised by male managers and older managers were not significantly different in organisational commitment to those managed by female and by younger or same-age managers.
Format: 119 leaves; 30 cm
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Fort Hare
Publisher: Faculty of Management & Commerce
Language: English
Rights: University of Fort Hare

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