Program Commitment: A Multi‐study Longitudinal Field Investigation of Its Impact and Antecedents

Abstract

Increasingly, human resource professionals are being challenged to manage organizational programs that have proliferated in the wake of continual pressure to respond to competition and environmental change. This research examines program commitment, that is, an employee's commitment to an organizational program, and investigates its association with important organizational outcomes and a set of potential antecedents in 2 longitudinal field studies. In the first study, program commitment was positively related to participation in the program and program‐related performance. In the second study, organizational commitment, change efficacy, and teamwork orientation were supported as antecedents to program commitment.

A Protrait Participation in Decision Making Among Accounting Lectures in Yogyakarta

“…It contradicts with an assumption proposed by Marks and Louis (1997) stating that teacher participation in decision making can enhance teacher's commitment. It also supports several studies in which PDM has become a significant predictor of job commitment (Neubert and Cady, 2001;Bogler and Somech, 2004).…”

“…(2009) confirmed that by involving lecturers in decision-making, the quality of decisions and their morale in their performance of duty will be higher. In an effort to identify the determinants of employee's participation in decision making, Neubert and Cady (2001) found that organizational commitment has a significant and positive relationship with participation as measured by Pearson correlation (r= 0.17; p <0.01). Participative management causes employees to learn to identify themselves with their job and it can increase employee performance.…”

“…Generally, people who involve more in a project will have a higher participation in decision making (Neubert and Cady, 2001). There are three approaches due to how PDM works in organizations (Pereira and Osburn, 2007).…”

Distinguishing organizational from strategy commitment: Linking officers' commitment to community policing to job behaviors and satisfaction

“…Neubert and Cady (2001) found that employees' commitment to a new strategic initiative was related to their level of participation in the new program. In addition, organizational commitment was found to be an antecedent to employees' commitment to the new strategy.…”

Participation and Organizational Commitment during Change: From Utopist to Realist Perspectives

“…Hideg et at, 2011;van Dam et aL, 2008;Wanberg & Banas, 2000), cynicism towards change (e.g. Brown & Gregan, 2008), and higher levels of comndtment to change (Neubert & Cady, 2001). Participation has also been shown to affect sense-malting during change, for example by producing beliefchange and generally fostering a better understauding of dhange (Basinger & Peterson, 2008;Stensaker et at, 2008).…”