Determinants of Employee Commitment in Commercial Bank of Ethiopia: The Case of Dire Dawa City branches

In today’s competitive world, every organization is facing new challenges regarding sustained productivity and creating a committed workforce. The General objective of the study was to determine the factors which influence employee commitment in CBE Dire Dawa City branches. To attain the general objective successfully, this study was guided by three research objectives namely: to assess the level of employees commitment, to examine how the organizational factors influence employees commitment and to investigate how the individual factors influence employees’ commitment in CBE-DD city branches. The study used both descriptive and inferential research design. A sample of 215 participants was selected out of the population of 483 employees using multistage and proportionate stratified random sampling technique. This represented a 44.51% sample of the whole population. A structured Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20. The results of descriptive, Pearson correlation and regression analysis are analyzed. In general the result of the finding indicates that both organizational and individual factors of employee commitment except internal locus of control have a contribution for the variability of employees’ commitment in CBE-DD city branches.