Abstract:
The paper investigates how personal characteristics antecedents
and organisational antecedents integrate to determine employee commitment
(EC) in the Electricity Company of Ghana. By so doing, we depart from the
predominant approaches to the study of EC which focus on a single set of
antecedents, and to establish the need for combining the two. A survey study,
we used questionnaire to collect primary data from 120 directors, managers and
employees of the company. Data were presented in tabular format using
frequencies and percentages, and cross-analysed the two sets of antecedents to
ascertain their extent of integration in driving EC. We found that integrating
both sets of antecedents reveals the critical role of employees’ personal
characteristics in influencing the organisational antecedents to cause
commitment, and a table is constructed to demonstrate this. We recommend
application of both sets of antecedents, simultaneously, to better explain how
and why employees are committed to organisations
