CFA in organisational commitment with speacial reference to women faculties of engineering colleges

This study aims to examine the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of organisational commitment among academicians. The research method, according to the purpose of applied research and the manner of data collection is a descriptive and the analyzing of the model specifically is based on structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS and SPSS softwares.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT (IJM) ISSN 0976-6502 (Print) ISSN 0976-6510 (Online) Volume 7, Issue 2, February (2016), pp 12-18 http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/index.asp Journal Impact Factor (2016): 8.1920 (Calculated by GISI) www.jifactor.com IJM ©IAEME CFA IN ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT WITH SPEACIAL REFERENCE TO WOMEN FACULTIES OF ENGINEERING COLLEGES Dr R Kalpana Project Coordinator, UGC Project, Bharathidasan University College, Perambalur Dr N.S Shibu Head, Research Centre of Management Studies Bharathidasan University College, Perambalur ABSTRACT The survival in the present insecure and competitive environment has forced organizations to have specialized and committed employees which act beyond their duties, because the success of organizations depends on them Committed human resources are organization’s greatest assets This study aims to examine the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of organisational commitment among academicians The research method, according to the purpose of applied research and the manner of data collection is a descriptive and the analyzing of the model specifically is based on structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS and SPSS softwares The study's statistical community is composed of 2713 women faculties working at 70 engineering colleges of Anna University in Trichy region and statistical sample includes 685, which have been selected by a stratified proportionate random sampling method The research findings which are based on structural equations model indicates that Job Related and Working Environment are the factors of Organizational Commitment Key words: CFA, Organisational Commitment, Engineering Colleges Cite this Article: Dr R Kalpana and Dr N.S Shibu CFA in Organisational Commitment with Speacial Reference to Women Faculties of Engineering Colleges International Journal of Management, 7(2), 2016, pp 12-18 http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/index.asp INTRODUCTION Education is basically the influence which the teacher exerts on the students entrusted to his care Effective teachers are required in the classroom because even the best curriculum and most perfect syllabus remain ineffective in the absence of a good teacher Hence retention of high quality teachers becomes important It is also important to understand the factors behind the retention of the good teachers The University Education Commission (1948) emphasised the importance of the teacher and his responsibility The commission was categorical about the need for improving his status, salaries, service conditions, and about providing facilities for the pursuit of knowledge and performing his 12 Dr R Kalpana and Dr N.S Shibu, “CFA In Organisational Commitment with Speacial Reference to Women Faculties of Engineering Colleges” – (ICAM 2016) International Journal of Management (IJM), ISSN 0976 – 6502(Print), ISSN 0976 6510(Online), Volume 7, Issue 2, February (2016), pp 12-18 © IAEME Publication duties satisfactorily In creative work like teaching, job satisfaction remains the „sine-qua-non‟ and plays a very significant role in attracting and retaining the right type of persons in the profession The term „Faculty‟ refers to the teaching staff or the academic staff of any university or college Institutions employ faculty members to attain the mission and goals of the organization A faculty who is well qualified and highly motivated is critical to the success of the institution But, even in top universities in developing countries, faculty have less of graduate level training which limits the degree of knowledge imparted to the students (Higher education in developing countries, 2000) Committed human resources are organization’s greatest assets In order to ensure excellent and experienced academic staff always attached with the educational institutions Committed employee should receive superior attention Moreover, when committed lecturer quits, the college will be burden with high cost and implications for the education system Committed and quality lecturer will take with them their teaching skills and experience Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993) have recognized that organizational commitment as a leading factor impacting the level of achievement in many organizations A lot of studies have been conducted on the relationship of organizational commitment either towards job satisfaction, job involvement or perceived organizational support only However, only few have been carried out on the collaboration of these three factors towards the organizational commitment Besides, there is very little research done to identify factors that impact organizational commitment among academics (Chang & Choi, 2007; Chen et al., 2007; Freund, 2005) REVIEW OF LITERATURE Porter et al., (1974) define the organizational commitment as "the robust belief in accepting organization's objectives and values, devoted endeavor for organization and strong proclivity to maintain membership in organization (JiHoon and Hong Min, 2009) Organization commitment is a reference organization vision based on which individuals go along with goals values and plans of their organizations and make striking efforts to maintain them Organizational commitment is people's positive or negative attitudes towards the whole organizations they are working in associated with an individual's organization commitment is a strong loyalty sense, through which he identifies his own organization (Mohammadi et al., 2012) Kalpana & Shibu (2013) studied that fostering commitment among academicians has important implications for educational institutions Therefore, highly committed academicians would make a positive contribution to their respective institutions and may lead to increase the effectiveness of the educational institutions Thus, institutions which seek to retain their faculties by building strong organizational commitment and average committed faculties are in a better position to reap the benefits of a more dedicated, motivated, and reliable teaching staff PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between factors towards organizational commitment among academicians It is hoped that the findings of the study will provide empirical evidences in the aspects of factor impacting organizational commitment among academicians and fulfill the research gap due to lack of studies conducted among academicians on organizational commitment OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY To examine the relationship between factors of organisational commitment towards organizational commitment among women faculties of engineering colleges PERIOD OF THE STUDY This study covers a period of three months from October to December 2013 METHODOLOGY SAMPLE FRAME The universe of the study comprises 2713 women faculties working at 70 engineering colleges of Anna University in Trichy region Out of the universe a sample unit of 685 taken up for the study the sample unit is chosen on stratified proportionate random sampling method 13 Dr R Kalpana and Dr N.S Shibu, “CFA In Organisational Commitment with Speacial Reference to Women Faculties of Engineering Colleges” – (ICAM 2016) International Journal of Management (IJM), ISSN 0976 – 6502(Print), ISSN 0976 6510(Online), Volume 7, Issue 2, February (2016), pp 12-18 © IAEME Publication DATA COLLECTION METHOD For collecting the data the respondents were contacted individually and given a brief description about the nature and purpose of the study Primary data were collected from respondents by administering a structured questionnaire dealing with various aspects of workplace sequences This questionnaire requires the respondent to answer each item on a likert scale format with choices per item is used ranging from "strongly disagree” to “strongly agree" Therefore, 750 survey questionnaires were distributed to the faculties who were willing to answer the questionnaire Of that total, 690 questionnaires were returned, resulting in a response rate of 92% to the researcher But 600 questionnaires were qualified for further investigation STATISTICAL TOOLS Primary data were collected, tabulated A pilot study was carried out to revise the questionnaires and for item analysis The validity and reliability of the questionnaires were measured The internal consistencies of scale were assessed through computing Cronbach’s Alpha The components of factor relating to organizational commitment show the reliability value ranging from 0.8 to 0.9 Implication from these values indicates that all of the items used for each component in the questionnaire have a high and consistent reliability values In AMOS 20, Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used in this study LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY The outcome of the study will be applicable only to these colleges and women faculties So the results cannot be generalized 10 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM In India over the years, there have been private initiatives in education initially for philanthropic reasons and eventually in professional and even in general higher education to meet the growing demand Privatization of higher education has emerged in several forms and types in the recent decade in India It is indispensable to understand the level of organisational commitment of employees and the teaching faculty of self financing colleges, because the level of organisational commitment and organisational support attained by employees would help to frame strategies not only to improve the involvement, commitment level but also for the efficient practice of privatization policy 11 FINDINGS Table No Reported values of model fit for the measurement model Incremental fit Parsimony measures fit measures χ2 Df χ2/df GFI RMSEA RMR NFI CFI AGFI Criteria