Demographic Implications on Employee Commitment: An Empirical Study on it Employees

This study proposes to examine the Employee commitment of Information Technology (IT) employees in relation to their demographics. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and the data was collected through questionnaire method. The sample size for the study is 109 IT employees of Bangalore city. The first part of the questionnaire constituted the demographic questions and the second part of the questionnaire constitutes the 24-item Employee commitment scale developed by Allen & Meyer in 1990. The scale comprises of three dimensions namely Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment and Normative Commitment. The study proposes to identify the scores of the three sub-dimensions of Employee commitment. The reliability of the scale was measured using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Statistical techniques such as Independent sample T-test and One Way Analysis of Variance were used to test the hypotheses pertaining to the IT employee demographics and their Employee commitment