Abstract

This study seeks to assess the effects of downsizing on surviving employees’ organisational commitment and job security with TNM as a case of reference. This followed the observation by Kurebwe (2011) revealing that most survivors were worried about their future and how long they were going to keep their jobs within the reduced organisation. This was echoed further by the publication that was carried out in the online Nyasatimes newspaper of 18th November, 2015 indicating that "FMB Employees Living in Fear: Retrenchment Looms". This signifies loss of job security among employees in quest of downsizing implementation which deeply has an effect on employee's commitment. In view of this, coupled with limited research studies on this topic, agitate the researcher to assess how downsizing affected surviving employees’ affective, continuance and normative commitment as well as quantitative and qualitative job security at TNM following the downsizing exercise that took place recently. The study was a cross sectional and adopted a descriptive survey design. Data collection was done with the aid of self-administered questionnaire in all TNM where questionnaires were delivered by hand to a sample size of 90, selected using stratified and simple random techniques. The descriptive statistics was used to analyzethe raw data with the help of SPSS. Results of the study indicate that downsizing negatively affect surviving employees’ affective and continuance commitment. The study shows that surviving employees’ affective and continuance commitment reduced after the process of downsizing at TNM. While downsizing reduced survivors affective and continuance commitment, to a greater extent, surviving employees remained committed to TNM normatively. Furthermore, the study reveals that downsizing negatively affects survivors’ quantitative and qualitative job security at TNM. The study shows that employees with shorter length of service and employees in lower level their affective and continuance commitment; quantitative and qualitative job security found to be reducing more than employees in the middle and upper levels.

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School	: School of Law, Economics and Government
Issued Date	: 2021

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