China's Commercial Banks Staff Organizational Commitment

Organizational commitment is a very important conception in organizational behavior and human resource management , and it is considered to be a bond or linking between employees and the organization. Becker, in 1960, first addressed organizational commitment. Organizational commitment is the very effective predictable index for job performance and turnover tendency, and is researched necessarily and urgently in the corporations of China, especially in the industrial banking of China because of the drastic competition in human resource and high turnover rate.Under this background, this study focuses on the relationships among self-efficiency, leadership style, organizational commitment, job performance and turnover tendency in China, which will contribute much more to the research of organizational commitment and the practice of human resource management.The participants in this study are the employees from the industrial banks in China. Through interview and survey methods, the structure of organizational commitment of Chinese industrial banks' employees and the antecedent and subsequent factors of it is explored. About 600 partipants were selected in this study and the data was analyzed by "The Statistical Package for Social Sciences "(SPSS). The result shows that organizational commitment of Chinese industrial banking employees includes four factors, that is, affective commitment, ideal commitment, continuous commitment and normative commitment. There exists some difference in the organizational commitment of the employees under different leadership styles. In four leadership styles, selling and participating leadership styles are more effective in order to promote organizational commitment. There is a positive significant correlation between self-efficacy and organizational commitment. Organizational commitment can predicate job performance and turnover tendency. Based on the research results, a list of suggestions in the further research of organizational commitment and the practice of human resource management in China have been put forward.