Recruitment Practices Effect on Organisational Performance through Employee Commitment

Employee commitment is a key factor that is often mediates the recruitment factors and organisational performance as found in literature. In addition, commitment is often being associated with employee retention which concerns most today’s organisations. The objectives of this thesis were fourfold; to investigate the effect of recruitment practices on organisational performance; to examine the relationship between employee commitment and recruitment practices; to examine the relationship between employee commitment and organisational performance; and to analyze the roles of employee commitment in mediating the effect between recruitment practices and organisational performance. The main analysis analysed the relationship among the research constructs and the research framework was validated by employing the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) Software. The current research was guided by Resource Based-view Theory. Quantitative research method was employed through survey utilizing questionnaires for primary data collection. The samples included 377 managerial personnel of firms in the energy industry such as Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Emirates National Oil Company, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, Sharjah National Oil Corporation. Simple random sampling method was used in achieving the total number of samples through the provided sampling formula. The results indicated a significant relationship between all variables.