The seeming lack of support of employees by the organizations studied in form of low career development prospect, poor participatory avenue and low management care necessitated this study whose broad objective was to determine the type of relationship that exists between Perceived Organizational Support and Employee Performance in selected Commercial Banks in South East Nigeria. The study was anchored on Organizational Support Theory (OST) and Social Exchange Theory (SET). Correlation Research Design was employed for the study. The population of the study was 1552 and Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size formula was adopted to arrive at a sample size of 308. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used for the analysis. The findings indicated that Management Support significantly and positively related with Felt Obligation in the selected Commercial Banks in South East Nigeria. (Cal. r .929 >Crit. r .138). The study concluded that Perceived Organizational Support had a significant positive relationship with employee performance in the selected commercial banks in South East Nigeria. It was recommended that Management of the focused firms should do well to show employees genuine love and support not only as it relates to their jobs but also in the private endeavours of the employees.
Keywords: Employee Performance, felt obligation, management support, perceived organizational support.
