EFFECTS OF TERRITORIALITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
Jakada Muhammad B., Muktar Ali Hassan, Ahmed Ibrahim Mohammed, Mahmud Nura Ringim, Ibrahim Adamu and Aliyu Rabi’u
Volume 7 Issue 1
Abstract
Territoriality within organizations is a double edge sword. While some studies reported its positive impacts on behaviors such as affective commitment, turnover intention and absenteeism, other studies reported its negative effects on task performance and knowledge sharing. However, territoriality is pervasive and inevitable. Therefore, organizations and practitioners persistently seek for effective ways to manage the negative territorial issues inherent in the workplaces. Drawing from theory of territoriality, this study examines the effects of territoriality on organizational commitment through affective, continuance and normative commitments. In addition, the study examined the role of organizations’ physical structures on the manifestation of territoriality. 227public secondary schools’ employees in Kano State were randomly selected and participated in the study. PLS-SEM was used for data analysis through smart PLS version 3. The study found that territoriality accounts for weak variation in affective commitment and normative commitment. In addition, territoriality accounts for medium variation in continuance commitment. Therefore, managers and practitioners can design their organizational physical structures in such a way that encourages collective ownership over objects rather than personal ownership to effectively dissuade individual territoriality and its negative consequences.
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