A STUDY OF SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS WITH RESPECT TO ATTITUDINAL VARIABLES

Abstract

Attitude is probably the most distinctive and indispensable concept in social psychology and organisational behaviour. The study is focused on attitude of the employees of the selected public and private sector banks in India. Three banks from public sector and three banks from private sector have been considered for the study. The main objective of the study is to investigate the predictors of job attitude of entire banking system. The other objectives are to study the effect of demographic variables like, types of organisation, gender, age, qualification, work experience, employee status, and salary on attitude and to examine the relationship of independent variables (i.e. job satisfaction, job involvement, organisational commitment, organisational effectiveness, and organisational culture) with dependent variable (i.e. job attitude). To meet the various objectives and to test the various hypotheses considered for this study, the various measuring instruments and statistical tools like descriptive statistics (mean and SD), inferential statistics (F test and t test), correlation analysis, and stepwise regression analysis, have been used.