Effect of employee engagement on organizational commitment in the Nigeria Police Force

Abstract

This study, effect of employee engagement on organizational commitment in the Nigeria Police Force, was aimed to examine how employee engagement affects organizational commitment among the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force. In this paper, survey research design was adopted and sample size of 400 personnel was selected from 371,800 personnel of the Nigeria Police Force. Stratified random sampling technique was adopted in selecting the respondents. The data was analysed using statistical Package for Social Sciences. Multiple regression analysis was utilized to find out the relationships existing among the variables. The findings of the study reveal that, the three independent variables, emotional engagement, cognitive engagement and physical engagement significantly predict 61.7% variance of organizational commitment. This indicates that all the independent variables positively affect organizational commitment, the coefficient of emotional engagement (0.531), cognitive engagement (0.082) and physical engagement (0.070) are statistically significant. The study concludes that, there is significant positive relationship between employee engagement and organizational commitment in the Nigeria Police Force. Based on the above findings, the study recommended that; Nigeria Police Force should provide ongoing professional development and training programs that equip officers with the necessary skills and knowledge, encourage further education and specialization that can increase employee engagement and commitment.