Title: An analysis of employee happiness, engagement and organisational commitment in the banking sector of India

Authors: Arijit Choudhury; Anirban Dutta; Sonit Dutta

Addresses: Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Jirania, Tripura West-799046, India ' Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Jirania, Tripura West-799046, India ' Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Jirania, Tripura West-799046, India

Abstract: In recent days, employee happiness along with employee engagement has become the buzzword in the business sectors. The present study aims to identify a positive relationship between employee happiness, employee engagement and organisational commitment and tries to find out whether employee happiness and employee engagement can be predicting factors of organisational commitment in the banking sector of India. Descriptive research design has been followed in this study and it comprises of 337 samples collected from bank employees. After multivariate linear regression analysis, results indicate a significant positive relationship between employee happiness and engagement and also show that employee happiness and engagement can have predictive value for organisational commitment for the employees working in the Indian banking sector.

Keywords: employee happiness; employee engagement; organisational commitment; Indian banking sector; regression analysis; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2022.124284

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2022 Vol.24 No.1/2, pp.159 - 179

Received: 16 Jun 2020
Accepted: 10 Dec 2020
Published online: 21 Jul 2022 *

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