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Differentiating antecedents of organizational commitment: a test of March and Simon's model
Author(s) -
Mayer Roger C.,
Schoorman F. David
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199801)19:1<15::aid-job816>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - organizational commitment , psychology , lisrel , ambiguity , social psychology , continuance , affective events theory , value (mathematics) , test (biology) , theory x and theory y , job satisfaction , job performance , organizational behavior and human resources , structural equation modeling , organizational engineering , job attitude , paleontology , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , biology
Recent theory regarding the nature of organizational commitment suggests that viewing it as comprised of two dimensions, value commitment and continuance commitment, is of theoretical and practical value. This field study found the differential antecedents of these two commitment dimensions to be consistent with the March and Simon (1958) framework using the two‐dimensional organizational commitment questionnaire from Mayer and Schoorman (1992). Organizational tenure, retirement benefits, education, and age were more highly correlated with continuance commitment, while felt participation, perceived prestige, job involvement, and role ambiguity were more highly correlated with value commitment. Analysis using LISREL 7 supported the pattern of relationships between the antecedents and the two commitment dimensions. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.