This dissertation investigates the determinants of career commitment in an organizational setting. It utilizes the results of a mailed survey sent to a sample of Salvation Army officers in the United States. A major portion of the work involves the examination of the commitment concept as a dependent variable. The emphasis is on social psychological predictors with a view to developing a predictive model suitable for screening and applicant evaluation. A path analytic strategy is employed to analyze the multivariate relationships. Included in the analysis is the decomposition of the effect of the predictors on the commitment variable. A reduced model emerges from the preliminary analysis and is itself subjected to analytic scrutiny. / Ph. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/71121 |
| Date | January 1980 |
| Creators | Nieves, Alvaro Lezcano |
| Contributors | Sociology |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation, Text |
| Format | vii, 174, [1] leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 6464468 |
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