Effects of Continuance, Affective, and Moral Commitment on the Withdrawal Process: an Evaluation of Eight Structural Equation Models

Diminishing the social network in organizations: does there need to be such a phenomenon as ‘survivor syndrome’ after downsizing?

“…According to Jaros et al (1993), the past two decades have seen the definition of organization commitment evolve into a complex construct that stresses the insufficiency of single-factor models (Bennett and Durkin, 2000). The multidimensional approach poses that organization commitment is influenced by three constructs: emotional attachment (affective commitment), perceived costs (continuance commitment) and moral obligation (normative commitment) (Allen and Meyer, 1990).…”

A multilevel model of affect and organizational commitment

“…In addition, different types of commitment have been proposed, including identification, value, calculative, affective, continuance, moral, and normative commitment. As a result, researchers have sought to further clarify and examine the construct of organizational commitment (Jaros, Jermier, Koehler, & Sincich, 1993;McGee & Ford, 1987;Meyer, Allen, & Gellatly, 1990;Shore & Wayne, 1993).…”

Organizational Commitment: A Proposal for a Wider Ethical Conceptualization of ‘Normative Commitment’

“…As Jaros et al (1993) underlines, the main distinction between affective commitment and moral commitment is that while the first is based on an emotional bond, the second is based on a rational bond. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that employees with high levels of moral commitment should show the strongest binds towards his/her organization.…”

“…12) ''perceived obligation to pursue a course of action'' (pg. 308) (Based on Jaros et al, 1993) between normative and affective commitment and a lack of discriminating validity. For those authors, the conceptual consequence is that they consider normative commitment as an extension of affective commitment.…”