Job Characteristics and Employee Commitment of Manufacturing Companies in Rivers State

This study investigated the relationship between job characteristics and employee commitment of manufacturing companies in Rivers State. It was hypothesized that job characteristics(skill variety and task significance) does not have significant relationship with employee commitment (affective- and continuance commitment). Data was collected through cross-sectional survey from 75employeesandanalysed to generate descriptive outputs, with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. Moreover, four hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient. Results suggested that job characteristics (skill variety and task significance) are strongly amplify employee commitment (affective- and continuance commitment). It was recommended that manufacturing companies should ensure their employees have a number of complex skills in order to apply the skills as the jobs are multi tasked. Manufacturing companies should ensure every employee finishes his/her job at hand before attending to another since their jobs are an integral part of the organisation and always aim at getting the attention of co-workers.