Organisational Commitment and Job Involvement among Casual Workers: The Role of Organisational Justice (Published)
The study investigated the role of organisational justice, age and gender on organisational commitment and job involvement among casual workers from two oil servicing companies in Omoku, Rivers State, Nigeria. The convenience sampling technique was used to select 399 participants made up of 251 males and 148 females. Participants’ ages ranged between 24-52 years (M = 37.94, SD = 7.35). The design adopted was cross-sectional survey design while the One-Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance was utilized to analyze data collected. The findings showed that casual workers who reported the presence of organisational justice had higher levels of commitment and were more involved in their jobs. However, age and gender showed no significant influences on organisational commitment and job involvement among casual workers. The study reaffirmed the need for managers in organisations to infuse policies geared towards enhancing organisational justice in their work places as this could improve work commitment and job involvement.
Keywords: Casual workers, Job Involvement, Nigeria, Oil Servicing Companies, Organisational Commitment, Organisational Justice
The Implication of Female Labour Force Participation on Economic Growth in Cameroon (Published)
This paper is design to investigate the determinants of female labour force in Cameroon and its influence on the economic growth of the country using a times series approach for 37 years (1980-2014). Adopting a Generalized Method of Moment technique of estimation with two models we observed that dependency ratio, fertility rate, male labour force and per capita income are clear determinants of female labour force in Cameroon. The economic growth equation shows opposite significant between female and male labour supply on economic growth over our period of the study. Based on these findings, we recommend that there is need to change social norms and to directly target a potentially large and important cohort of Jordan’s labor supply.
Keywords: Casual workers, Economics Growth, Female Labour Force Participation, Hazardous Working Conditions, Job Security, Poor Working Environments, Poverty among Women
Predictor Factors of Dispositional Optimism among Casual Workers in Selected Firms in Eldoret Town (Published)
The study sought to investigate the factors that predict or account for dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town, Kenya have been working under temporary employment terms for many years. The study tested the following null hypotheses: HO1. Age is not a significant predictor of dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town, HO2. Gender is not a significant predictor of dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town, HO3. Religious affiliation is not a significant predictor of dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town, HO4. Level of education is not a significant predictor of dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town, HO5. Skill possession is not a significant predictor of dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town and HO6. Family support is not a significant predictor of dispositional optimism among casual workers in selected firms in Eldoret town. The population of the study comprised all the casual workers who were working in manufacturing firms in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya and the inclusion criterion was that one had to have worked on casual terms for a period of at least five years. The firms were 5 in total with a population of 401 from which a sample of 163 casual workers was drawn using stratified sampling technique. The study adopted the Ex post facto design. Study data were collected using a questionnaire which was developed based on the study hypotheses which were administered with the help of research assistants. The study data was analyzed using regression analysis, presenting results for both the t-statistic and ANOVA. All analysis was conducted using SPSS 17 version 22. The level of significance adopted by the study was α = 0.05. The study established that age, gender, religious affiliation, level of education and family support were significant predictors of dispositional optimism as confirmed by the results of hypothesis testing. Based on the findings however, skill possession did not have a significant prediction on dispositional optimism among casual workers in the study
Keywords: Casual workers, Dispositional optimism
