Supervisory Support on the Organizational Commitment: Role of Power Distance in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

Abstract

Supervisor’s support for the employees is an important factor which ensures employee retention. A good supervisor enables employees to achieve their personal as well as organizational goals. Supervisors are the front side of the organization. The purpose of this investigation was to find out the impact of supervisory support on organizational commitment in the presence of power distance. The data was collected from the manufacturing sector. A sum of 500 questionnaires were distributed and among them 395 were returned back. 340 out of 395 were correctly filled and were considered for analysis. Reliability scores against each variable were calculated which were in acceptable range. Descriptive and inferential statistics have been used to investigate the impact of supervisory support on organizational commitment under mediating effect of power distance. Limitations and future directions are also discussed.

Keywords: Supervisory support, Power distance, Organizational commitment, Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics