The study of organizational commitment is an integral component of any research involving organizational withdrawal. Organizational commitment progressed from vague identification under 'morale' in the 1950's, to being considered part of job satisfaction in the 1960's to becoming clearly defined in the late 1970's. In the 1980's, research has shown commitment as the best single predictor of organizational turnover. In 1987 research has shown the commitment construct to be multidimensional. In 1989, research linked job performance to commitment. In the 1990's construct measurement is being refined. The current research asks if there are different commitment factors for different groups. Specifically, it was hypothesized that the factor structure of commitment is different for different organizational groups (a military and a civilian group), given the same occupational position (clerical workers). Commitment was also hypothesized to have a higher correlation with Intention to Quit (ITQ) than Job Satisfaction correlated with ITQ. Causal Structural Modeling and factor analysis showed that factor structures did differ between samples in interpretable ways. Commitment did correlate higher with ITQ in the military sample while Job Satisfaction had a higher correlation with ITQ in the civilian sample. This research implies that the structure of commitment changes depending on the organizational environment. These interpretable differences have the potential for differential weighting of factors in tailoring organizational turnover interventions / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_24098 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Contributors | Baltzley, Dennis Ray (Author), Dunlap, William P (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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