Measuring Commitment and its Impact on Sustainable Performance: A Case Study on Hajee Mohammad Danesh

Abstract

Faculty members’ of any University are playing a vital role in the lives of student. So, the administration of University should be aware of the importance of faculty members’ commitment and its role in motivating them for sustaining their performance. The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of faculty members’ commitment on sustained performance in University sector of Bangladesh. Both primary and secondary data has been used for this research paper. Primary data has been collected through questionnaires and secondary data is being used to identify the commitment related problems of the faculty members’ of University and collected from related journals, books, website of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, and internet, etc. In this paper Satisfaction, Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment & Normative Commitment have been used as independent variables and Sustained performance as the dependent variable. The findings of the study indicated that normative commitment is significantly related to sustained performance, continuance commitment is negatively related and affective commitment, satisfaction have no relation with sustained performance. The finding reveals that there exists a significant relation between satisfaction and Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment, Normative Commitment. So, the administration of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Dinajpur, should be working towards the faculty members’ satisfaction and organizational commitment. Faculty members’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment and sustained performance are interrelated with each other. So, the policy makers and academic administrators should take necessary measures to increase job satisfaction and organizational commitment for sustaining performance.