An Empirical Study of Theories of Organizational and Occupational Commitment

Aranya, Nissim; Jacobson, Dan

doi:10.1080/00224545.1975.9923308

Cited by 65 publications

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“…Other studies supporting this standpoint were presented by Baugh and Roberts (1994) and Wang and Armstrong (2004). These arguments were held by earlier studies in this direction by Aranya and Jacobson (1975), who found strong correlation between organizational and professional commitment among 276 system analysts belonging to the Israeli Association of System Analysts. Similar results supporting strong correlations between organizational and professional commitments are given by Boshnoff and Mels (2000) in their study of 382 teachers and chartered accountants.…”

Section: Theoretical Lenses: Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 86%

The Relationship between Organizational and Professional Commitment in the Case of Project Workers: Implications for Project Management

Dwivedula

Bredillet

2010

Project Management Journal

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between organizational and professional commitment of project workers. We first present (1) role‐conflict theory and exchange theory to establish the multiple dimensions of commitment (affective, continuance, and normative) and (2) social identity theory to support our argument for different foci of commitment—organization and profession. Building on these theoretical lenses, we present the literature review that compares organizational and professional commitment of project workers with respect to the three dimensions of commitment. Adopting a positivist approach and a sample of 141 project workers, we use Pearson's correlation to identify the relationship between affective organizational and affective professional, continuance organizational and continuance professional, and normative organizational and normative professional commitment. We report significant correlation between affective organizational commitment and affective professional commitment of project workers. The correlations between continuance organizational commitment and continuance professional commitment and normative organizational commitment and normative professional commitment are moderate. We then discuss the implications of these findings for the project management profession.

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Section: Theoretical Lenses: Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 86%

The Relationship between Organizational and Professional Commitment in the Case of Project Workers: Implications for Project Management

Dwivedula

Bredillet

2010

Project Management Journal

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“…utility employees perceive will accrue to them due to their organizational loyalty (Kiesler 1971;Staw 1974Staw , 1976; that is, individuals make a contribution today in exchange for (or in expectation of) future benefits (Kanton 1968). Other studies, however, failed to support this relationship (Aranya andJacobson 1975, Ritzer andTrice 1969). Other studies, however, failed to support this relationship (Aranya andJacobson 1975, Ritzer andTrice 1969).…”

Section: Antecedents To Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Organizational Commitment and Marketing

Hunt¹,

Chonko²,

Wood³

1985

Journal of Marketing

139

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“…Early research used individual level factors to operationalize the concept of side-bets, relying on such variables as age, tenure, gender, education, and marital status as proxies for side-bets (Alutto, Hrebiniak, & Alonso, 1973;Angle & Perry, 1983;Aranya & Jacobson, 1975;Cohen & Gattiker, 1992;Meyer & Allen, 1984;O'Reilly & Caldwell, 1981;Ritzer & Trice, 1969;Sheldon, 1971). A meta-analysis by Cohen and Lowenberg (1990) of fifty side-bet studies, however, suggested little relation between commitment and individual level variables used as measures of side-bets (see also, Wallace, 1997).…”

Section: Side-betsmentioning

confidence: 99%