THE EFFECT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT ON THE JOB PERFORMANCE IN IRAQI EDUCATIONAL

Abstract

Employees’ performance is critical to the success of any organization. Improving organizational commitment within employees is a crucial component of improving performance. The goal of this research is to see how Normative, Continuance and Affective organizational commitment affect employee performance. Using a singlestage cluster sampling, the research was conducted among 244 employees of Iraqi educational institutions. Data analysis was carried out using the structural equations modeling (SEM) method. The findings of this study show that organizational commitment possesses a considerable favorable impact on job performance. Moreover, the research found that all three aspects of organizational commitment, namely, Normative, Continuance, and Affective commitment, had a significant favorable effect on job performance. It was discovered that job performance was highly linked to employees’ commitment, according to the research