THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT ON JOB PERFORMANCE WITH EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AS A MEDIATOR
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Abstract
Organizational commitment and employee engagement all affect the performance of employees. For the first time, employee engagement is used as an intermediary variable to study the influence in this paper. Selecting more than 410 employees from Chinese companies as samples, and collecting data by means of questionnaires, 426 questionnaires were distributed and 418 valid questionnaires were recovered the paper uses multiple regression analysis to discuss the relations between Job performance and Organizational Commitment, Employee Engagement. As follows: (1) The organization’s commitment has clearly positive relations with job performance; (2) The organization's commitment has clearly positive relation with employee engagement; (3) There is a clear positive correlation between employee engagement and job performance; (4) Employee engagement has played a certain role in affecting organizational commitment and job performance; Through summing up and refining the research results, it will lay the theoretical basis and development direction for the later research.
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