Financial Reward and Employee Commitment in Organizations: A Study of Imo State Civil Service, Nigeria

Abstract

All aspects of the particular job, good or bad, positive or negative are likely to contribute to the development of feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The study is on financial reward and employee commitment in the state civil service. The study was conducted to examine the relationship between payment of salaries, wages, offer of bonus and employee commitment variables. Four research questions and hypotheses guided the study. In employing the survey research design, the study, also used the non-probability sampling technique, descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to analyze data. Correlation analysis was employed in the testing of the hypotheses. The analysis was enabled by statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. Findings showed that payment of salaries positively influenced affective employee commitment and continuance employee commitment, payment of wages positively influenced normative employee commitment and offer of bonus positively affected continuance employee commitment. It was concluded that financial reward enhanced employee commitment in the Imo State Civil Service. The study recommends that management of various ministries in the state civil service should not take the issue of employee commitment for granted.