This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the perception of the employees of the banks in
Gaza, Palestine and the impact of such a perception on their commitment to these banks. Precisely, this study
wanted to examine the impact of perceived job satisfaction, perceived job characteristics, perceived
organizational characteristics, and role perception on three dimensions of organizational commitment namely:
“affective commitment, normative commitment, and continuance commitment”. This study was a quantitative
study where 200 questionnaires were distributed and only 127 were obtained and used for further analysis. The
descriptive analysis results showed that in terms of employee commitment, the employees of the banks in Gaza
were quite committed especially in the affective and continuous dimensions of commitment. They showed less
commitment in the normative dimension. As for the employee perception, the employees of the banks in Gaza were
quite satisfied especially in terms of their satisfaction towards the job. However, they were less satisfied in terms
of the job characteristics. Moreover, the regression analysis results showed that perceived job satisfaction,
perceived job characteristics, and perceived organizational characteristics were found to be positively and
significantly correlated with affective commitment. Role perception was not found significantly correlated to
affective commitment. The results also showed that only perceived job satisfaction was found to be significantly
and positively correlated with continuous commitment. Other dimensions namely (perceived job characteristics,
perceived organizational characteristics, and role perception) were not found significantly correlated with
continuous commitment. Finally, only role perception and perceived organizational characteristics were found to
have a significant positive correlation with normative commitment.