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Structural influences on organizational commitment
James Morris,Richard Steers +1 more
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In this paper, the relationships of several aspects of organization structure with organizational commitment were examined within a multiple regression framework for 262 public sector employees, and the six structural variables accounted for over 20% of the overall commitment.About:Â
This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 216 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational commitment & Affective events theory.read more
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A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment
John P. Meyer,Natalie J. Allen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors go beyond the existing distinction between attitudinal and behavioral commitment and argue that commitment, as a psychological state, has at least three separable components reflecting a desire (affective commitment), a need (continuance commitment), and an obligation (normative commitment) to maintain employment in an organization.
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A review and meta-analysis of the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of organizational commitment
John E. Mathieu,Dennis M. Zajac +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize previous empirical studies that examined antecedents, correlates, and/or consequences of organizational commitment using meta-analysis, including 26 variables classified as antecedent, 8 as consequences, and 14 as correlates.
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Concept Redundancy in Organizational Research: The Case of Work Commitment
TL;DR: A facet design describing the theoretical and empirical interrelationships among five forms of work commitment (Protestant work ethic, career salience, job involvement/work as a central life interest, organizational commitment, and union commitment) is presented in this paper.
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A longitudinal analysis of the antecedents of organizational commitment.
TL;DR: From longitudinal data from 129 nursing department employees, organizational commitment was found to be antecedent to job satisfaction rather than an outcome of it, and several other variables were causally related to satisfaction but not commitment as mentioned in this paper.
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The Measurement of Organizational Commitment.
TL;DR: The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) as discussed by the authors ) is a measure of employee commitment to work organizations, developed by Porter and his colleagues, which is based on a series of studies among 2563 employees in nine divergent organizations.
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Organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and turnover among psychiatric technicians.
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the variations in organizational commitment and job satisfaction, as related to subsequent turnover in a sample of recently-employed psychiatric technician trainees, was reported.
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Building organizational commitment: the socialization of managers in work organizations
TL;DR: Buchanan et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a survey of 279 business and government managers to identify several commitment-relevant experiences and suggest that the influence potential of particular experiences varies significantly with tenure.
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Personal and Role-Related Factors in the Development of Organizational Commitment.
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between personal and role-related factors and commitment to the employing organization and found that commitment is an exchange and accrual phenomenon, dependent on the employee's perception of the ratio of inducements to contributions and the accumulation of side bets or investments in the employing system.