Organizational Commitment and Innovative Working Behavior in Public Organizations
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Organizational commitment is important for innovative work behavior. Many organizations have tried to promote personnel’s organizational commitment by providing support, encouragement in working, creating work experiences that make personnel feel part thereof and a major force in determining the direction of the organizations so as to push for and encourage personnel’s innovative work behavior, including attempts to find causal factors affecting organizational commitment for use to improve and develop guidelines on building personnel’s organizational commitment.
Therefore, the objectives of this research were to study 1) the level of organizational commitment and innovative work behavior in public organizations 2) the causal relationship between job characteristics, organizational structure and work experience with organizational commitment. This research was quantitative research. The representative sample of 300 persons included civil servants at operational level and above in the Office of the Permanent Secretary for economic affairs in 5 ministries, consisting of 1) the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport, 31 persons 2) Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, 19 persons 3) Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, 114 persons 4) Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, 99 persons and 5) Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy, 37 persons by stratified multi-stage sampling and simple random sampling. The tool of this research was a closed-ended questionnaire. Data were analyzed with SPSS program by simple regression analysis, multiple regression analysis.
The research findings were as follows.
The level of organizational commitment and innovative work behavior of personnel in government organizations of all 5 ministries as a whole was at high level.
The results of the relationship test showed that job characteristics, organizational structure, work experience had a positive effect on organizational commitment. Also, organizational commitment had a positive effect on innovative work behavior.
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