Determinants of Affective Organisational Commitment and the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction among English Teachers in Kuwait

Abstract

The notion of affective organisation commitment is devaluing and needs fresh evidence for its contemporary understanding. This paper aimsto explain the organisational commitment in terms of its key determinants such as person-job fit, work conditions, work-life balance and with the with important mediating role of the job satisfaction. A total of 900 survey questionnaires were sent to a sample schools related to six governorates of Kuwait; 548 responded, giving a response rate of 61%. SmartPLS 3 software and SPSS were used to perform structural equation modelling for testing hypotheses and doing the mediation analysis. The findings suggest that organisational commitment is primarily determined by the person-job fit, work conditions, and total experience whereas job satisfaction is found having a moderating relationship in between. There is, however, no considerable evidence to support the teachers nationality and work-life balance have any direct relationship with the affective organisational commitment. These findings reveal fresh evidence from the english teachers community in Kuwaiti government schools and thus inform local government human resource policies and its global theorization. The findings related work-life balance required more research as in the recent times work-life balance has disturb and therefore our findings contradicts the established literature in this regard.

Keywords: Organisational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Job-person fit, work conditions, and experience

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-15-11

Publication date:May 31^st 2022