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The Effects of Job Security, Features, Personal Values, and Recognition on Organizational Involvement

Author(s)

Yacoub Petro, Arun Bajracharya

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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2012.08.005

Affiliation(s)

Yacoub Petro, MSc, PMP, Projects Manager, Project Management Departement, MWH UK Limited.
Arun Bajracharya, BEng, MEng, Ph.D., Fuculty of Business, The British University in Dubai (BUiD).

ABSTRACT

As extrinsic rewards become very limited under organizational retrenchments, organizations should rely heavily on other types of rewards, such as intrinsic rewards, to improve the performance of those employees who have been overwhelmed with a perception of job insecurity. This paper examines the impact of such perception, along with many other positive influencers such as enhancement in job features, recognition, and the personal values of those employees on the organizational involvement. The data analyzed were based on a sample of 34 employee respondents from a project based engineering and service company (identified as ABC Company in this paper) operating in the Middle East. The adopted research approach is basically a quantitative approach. The correlation and regression analysis tools have been used to explore this relationship. The results of this study suggest a generally unnoticed and disregarded resource that has the prime effect on improving and enhancing the organizational involvement, which is the recognition those employees receive from the management. This research suggests that recognition, as the top influencer, has a strong impact on organizational involvement/psychological attachment for the employees. The other factors that have proved to have the second degree influence on organizational involvement are enhancement in job features, increase in the job security level, and personal values.

KEYWORDS

organizational involvement, job features, job security, values, recognition

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