IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bfy/ojtejh/v8y2024i2p48-60id2366.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effect of Team Based Support on Organizational Commitment in Insurance Companies in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Author

Listed:
  • Dr. Rael Mandago
  • Johnstone Kipcumba Tarus

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the effect of team based support on organizational commitment in insurance companies in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya Materials and Methods: In a bid to effectively achieve these objectives, the study adopted a descriptive research design based on samples drawn from across the insurance companies in Uasin Gishu County. The target population was 754 insurance companies’ employees. A two-stage sampling technique was adopted where stratified random sampling was used to select the insurance companies after which simple random sampling was used to select respondents within the insurance companies. The study used the Krejcie and Morgan table (1970) to calculate the sample size which was 260 respondents from the target population of 754 respondents. The sample size was distributed proportionally to the insurance companies according to Neyman’s allocation formula to maximize survey precision. Data was collected by use of self-administered questionnaires which was tested for validity and reliability after piloting 26 questionnaires at Kisumu city insurance companies. Data was analyzed by use of both inferential and descriptive statistics using SPSS version 25. Findings: There is a significant effect of team-based support on Organizational Commitment in insurance companies in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya ((b=.108, p=0.004). These findnings are based on the social exchange theory. Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: The organization should invest in team-based support amongst employees. The insurance companies should ensure that they strengthen their policy frameworks which recognize and enhance team-based support within various domains of their operations. The team should have clarity of purpose and concern for others built on mutual trust for cohesiveness to perpetuate organizational commitment. Besides as a team the employees should use their diversity of skills and Knowledge to develop diverse talents for optimal organizational commitment.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:bfy:ojtejh:v:8:y:2024:i:2:p:48-60:id:2366
as

Download full text from publisher

File URL: https://ajpojournals.org/journals/index.php/EJH/article/view/2366/3093
Download Restriction: no
---><---

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bfy:ojtejh:v:8:y:2024:i:2:p:48-60:id:2366. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chief Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ajpojournals.org/journals/index.php/EJH/ .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.