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    Work values and employee commitment in selected ministries of Imo State Civil Service
    (Federal University of Technology, Owerri, 2023-07) Onyema, Peace Kelechi
    Employers (Government) are sometimes baffled when their highly-rated employees are not interested in work related activities, under-perform and exhibit nonchalance and lack of enthusiasm towards their work. This paper therefore examined the nature of relationship that exists between work values and employee commitment in selected ministries of Imo state civil service commission. Descriptive survey research design was adopted and the research hypotheses was tested using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. A sample size of 293 staff were selected from the total population of 1, 095 using Taro Yamane’s formula. The result revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between job involvement and affective commitment, between social status and continuance commitment and between pride in the work and employee performance. The study concludes that employees are committed and value their work, when the enabling environment and opportunities like job security, career advancement, compensation and welfare packages are provided. Based on the findings, the following recommendations are made; government should liaise with recognized Manpower development institutions on relevant training matters that can help to improve workers skills and transform their lukewarm desire for achievement and commitment into positive work attitude. Also, job security and constant remuneration will boost morale of employees to work harder towards achieving or accomplishing challenging task.