“…James & James, 1989;Parker et al, 2003). Second, the following demographic groups will have higher NCI scores: males, officers, sailors with more years of service, and sailors currently not on deployment, able to pay bills and meet financial obligations, working fewer hours per week, and married (Defense Manpower Data Center, 2006;Huffman et al, 2005;Whittam, 2006;Whittam & Janega, 2006). Third, we hypothesized that NCI scores will be positively related to four fundamental work-related outcomes-job satisfaction, morale, organizational commitment, and retention intentions-based on prior work linking psychological and organizational climate with these outcomes (e.g., Ostroff et al, 2003;Parker et al;Schulte et al, 2006;Stone et al, 2007).…”