Organizational Commitment and Employee's Innovative Behavior

Commitment has been the area of interest among academic researchers and practitioners because it is believed to have an effect on organizational performance. There are plethora of studies examining and evaluating the antecedents and correlates of employees' commitment, but little efforts have been given towards studying the relationship between Organizational Commitment and Innovative Behavior of employees. The present study is a modest attempt to address the relationship between Organizational Commitment and Innovative behavior in Retail sector. Data were collected from 80 executives working in retail sector. Organizational Commitment was measured by using Allen and Meyers' Scale and Innovative behavior was measured by scale developed by Ishak. Data were analyzed using correlation and Multiple Regression. Results revealed that innovative behavior is positively related to affective commitment and negatively related to continuance commitment. In the similar way R Square showed that organizational commitment explain 14% of innovative behavior.