Abstract:
Commitment to the organization is an important behavioural dimension which can be utilized to evaluate
employees' strength of attachment. This study is an attempt to identify the relationship between employees’
salary and supervisor support with three forms of organizational commitment named as affective
commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment. Dependant variable of the study was
organizational commitment and it was measured by using three dimensions namely normative
commitment, affective commitment and continuance commitment and salary and supervisor support were
considered as the independent variables. For the purpose of the study structured questionnaire were
distributed among 75 executive employees at three largest construction companies in Sri Lanka and
received 62 responses. Meyer & Allen’s (1997) Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) was used
to measure organizational commitment. Six items regarding salary factors pertaining to level, benefits,
raises, and structure/administration were selected from the Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire (Heneman &
Schwab, 1985) and the questionnaire developed by Ramus & Steger (2000) was used to measure supervisor
support. Correlations and regression analysis were applied to analyzed data. The statistical results of the
study showed that a strong, significant relationship between both salary and supervisor support and three
forms of organizational commitment. As compared with affective commitment, salary and supervisor
support have great impact on continuance commitment and normative commitment.
