Direct path co-efficient.

Empirically, the study examined how psychosocial career preoccupation [PCP] directly affects organizational commitment [OC] and indirectly affects the same via workplace friendship [WF] among administrative and teaching staff in public higher education institutions in Ghana. The numerical orientation to the data analysis supported the use of the explanatory research design and quantitative approach. The population included both administrative and teaching staff in public higher education institutions in Ghana with at least one year of service. Structured questionnaires were issued for the primary data collection via the convenience sampling technique and the response rate was 96% (288 valid responses from 300 approached participants). The unit of analysis was at the individual level. SMART-PLS software (version 4.1.0.8) was used for the data processing. The repeated indicator structural modelling technique was employed to configure the model reflectively to test the hypotheses. PCP fails to contribute significantly to predicting OC directly (β = 0.045, p = 0.250). However, PCP contributes significantly in a strong manner to predicting WF (β = 0.454, p