The mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between job satisfaction and commitment of employees working in the textile industry
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to explore the mediating role of self-efficacy and the relationship between job satisfaction and employee commitment.
Design/methodology/approach
The study is designed based on social cognitive theory. To collect the data, survey method is used in the present study. Questionnaires were distributed to the 75 randomly selected textile industry registered and located in Bengaluru city, India. Employees of 71 organizations participated in the survey. Out of 700 employees who received the email survey, 452 valid responses were considered for the data analysis. To examine the defined research hypothesis, a structural equation model is used.
Findings
The mediating analysis explored that the direct effect is 0.700, the indirect effect is 0.1730 and the total effect is 0.8731; it indicated that self-efficacy mediates the relationship between job satisfaction and employee commitment. Research also reveals that there is a positive relationship between self-efficacy, employee commitment and job satisfaction of employees working in the textile industry. The proposed measurement model statistics are as follows: CMIN = 2.322; df = 49; GFI = 0.958; AGFI = 0.934; NFI = 0.943; RFI = 0.923; IFI = 0.967; TLI = 0.955; CFI = 0.966. All these indices were nearer to unity.
Practical implications
The research findings provide insights to the management, practitioners and employers about the status of job satisfaction, self-efficacy and commitment of employees in textile organizations which will help make the strategies to increase the overall performance of the organization by enhancing the levels of job satisfaction, self-efficacy and commitment of textile industry employees.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that tests the relationship among self-efficacy, job satisfaction and the mediating effect of self-efficacy of employees in Indian textile industries.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to express their gratitude to JSS Mahavidyapeetha, Mysuru, JSS Academy of Technical education, Bengaluru, JSS Science and Technology University, Mysuru, Karnataka, India, for their encouragement to write this research paper. The author expresses their sincere thanks to all the authors of source materials cited at the reference. They also expresses their sincere thanks to editorial team for their valuable guidance and providing useful comments, observations and suggestions, which led to the improvement of this article.
Funding: No funding's was received for this research.
Citation
Nanjundeswaraswamy, T.S., P., N., Bharath, S. and K.M., V. (2023), "The mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between job satisfaction and commitment of employees working in the textile industry", Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/RJTA-01-2023-0002
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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