Impact of organizational support in achieving organizational goals: A conceptual approach

Abstract

Globally organizations are created to achieve predetermine objectives and in order to achieve these objectives there is a need to assemble human and material resources. However, human resources stand as the most significant because they are the ones that utilize the material resources to achieve the predetermined goals and objectives hence there is strong need for organizational support to human resources who are also called employees for higher performance towards the achieving of stated objective because achieving organizational goals was heavily depend on the performance of employees of the organization and effort of the organization toward effective human resources management. Organizational support is the degree to which employees believe that their organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being and fulfils socio emotional needs.
Organizational support serves as the catalyst to the improvement of employees’ performance which in turn leads to the general productivity on the organizational performance and subsequent goals achievement of the organization. Organizational support includes many variables but this study picked two among the variables and these are organizational reward and training and development because they are important ingredients for improving employees’ performance in any organization. Organizational reward motivates and increase employee confidence of their organization also training and development is indeed essential for the enhancement of skills for better job performance, increase employee knowledge and enhancing the quality of delivery. The data for the study was sourced through the use of textbook, journal and other related article; the study utilized only secondary data. The findings revealed there is strong relationship between organizational support and achieving organizational goals.