The mediating role of organizational commitment in the collective efficacy-performance relationship

Abstract

In recent years, human resources have become a central issue for senior executives in organizations as they try to increase the commitment and performance of their employees. The study aims to examine three of the most important employee attachments to the workplace, namely organizational commitment, collective efficacy and individual job performance, based on a multifocal research framework, while also investigating the mediating effect of organizational commitment. The methodological basis includes the foundations of organizational behavior and human resources management. The research data were obtained by the survey method with 171 respondents working for a port operator in Mersin, Turkey. The survey data obtained were evaluated on a 5-point Likert scale. Statistical calculations were performed in SPSS Statistics 24 software package. The research methods are quantitative and sociometric analysis; reliability and validity analysis were applied to the variables. The relationships between the variables were tested using the structural equation model. To assess the importance of the intermediary effect, the bias-corrected bootstrap method was used. Our findings have shown that collective efficacy has a positive effect on organizational commitment, and organizational commitment has a positive effect on performance. Organizational commitment was proved as having a mediating role in the effect of collective efficacy on individual job performance. The study highlights that employees need to be committed to their organizations, and the increase in performance should be triggered by giving place to collective work.