Abstract:
Employee engagement is used to describe how emotionally invested and devoted
individuals are to their jobs and their organizations. The major objective of this study was
to evaluate employee engagement and organizational commitment of some selected
branches of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia under the Dire Dawa district. This study used
both primary data and secondary source of data. The primary data was collected from
employees of commercial bank of Ethiopia. Multistage sampling technique was employed.
For this research 125 questioner were distributed and obtained all were obtained for the
data analysis. Descriptive statistics tools such as frequency and percentage were used to
analyze the collected data. Analysis was carried out using the Statistical Package for
Social Science. The descriptive statistics indicate that the respondents showed a high level
of responses to the dimensions of Employee Engagement Vigor, Employee Engagement
Absorption, and Employee Engagement Dedication. However, it is mentioned that the
majority of the respondents were not willing to answer regarding Affective Organizational
Commitment. Additionally, the statement mentions a significant difference in mean scores
for males and females in terms of Continuance Commitment.. This indicates that there is a
statistically significant difference in Continuance Commitment between males and females.
It may be inferred that giving people the freedom to manage their own workloads, choose
their own priorities, and achieve their goals may boost employee engagement. Managers
in organizations are also recommended to encourage more employee involvement decision
making. Organizations must develop employee empowerment strategies in order to raise
commitment levels
