Performance Appraisal and Employee Commitment: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

Two thousand academics were randomly selected from twenty universities in the UK were invited to participate in the survey. We sent an email to each sample academic, to solicit his/her participation in the survey. Four hundred and sixty (460) participants completed the survey, of which there were 363 usable observations. This gives a net response rate of 18.15%. We employed PLS-SEM to analyse the data using SmartPLS software. PLS-SEM approach is appropriate for our study considering variance-based PLS-SEM yields consistent estimation outcomes although it demands fewer requirements than CB-SEM, making it a valuable technique for theory testing (Götz et al., 2010; Peng & Lai, 2012).