Abstract:
Employee commitment means, that employee knows about the organizational goals and objective and there must be willingness with high efforts on behalf of the organization and their intention must be in true sense to stay within organization (Potter et al 1974). "Organizations of the 21st century are concerned about how to foster employee commitment, extra-role behavior and retention in a highly competitive environment. Organizational success and sustainability require exceptional contributions from the workforce". Therefore to achieve competitive advantage, committed employees are needed to an organization.
With reference to the past research findings it was clear that, there are contradictory ideas in relation to identification of the difference of employee's commitment in terms of the employee personal characteristics and this matter has poorly been researched in the Sri Lankan context.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to "identify the differences of employee commitment in terms of the employee personal characteristics" with especial references to licensed commercial public and private banks in Mannar district.
Data collection instrument was a Structure questionnaire of Meyer and Allen (1991). Sample was comprised with 7 licensed commercial ?public and private sector banks situated in Mannar District and 37 employees from public banks and 28 employees from private banks responded to the structured questionnaire. One way ANOVA test and graphs were used as tools for analyzing the data.
