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The dimensions of organizational commitment
Author(s) -
BarHayim Aviad,
Berman Gerald S.
Publication year - 1992
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/job.4030130406
Subject(s) - loyalty , organizational commitment , curse of dimensionality , metric (unit) , psychology , identification (biology) , social psychology , dimension (graph theory) , organizational identification , organizational behavior , computer science , mathematics , business , artificial intelligence , marketing , pure mathematics , botany , biology
Abstract The dimensionality of the concept organizational commitment, formulated by Porter, Steers, Mowday and Boulian in 1974 and later by Cook and Wall in 1980, is explored by metric and non‐metric methods among industrial workers in Israel. A distinction is established between loyalty to the employing organization and identification with and readiness to exert effort on its behalf. This is a distinction between passive and active organizational commitment, hidden in the original additive scales, that could prove useful in understanding the behavior of different populations of industrial workers.