Organizational commitment: a critique of the construct and measures

By Stephen Swailes. 2002

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Human resource practices, employee attitudes and small firm performance (2017, unknown): “High levels of organisational commitment therefore concern strong and positive feelings towards an organisation and its value, as well as congruence between the beliefs and values of employers and employees (Swailes, 2002).”
Implementing Performance Appraisal: Exploring the Employee Experience (2013, background): “Organizational commitment is frequently a variable of interest in studies of HRM and individual or organizational performance (Swailes, 2002), and has engendered a field of study of high-commitment work practices that includes performance appraisal (Farndale, Hope-Hailey, & Kelliher, 2011).”
Path analysis of organizational commitment, job involvement and job satisfaction in Turkish hospitality industry (2009, background): “Together with antecedents, past studies have explored a range of correlates such as job security, job satisfaction and commitment to a union and a profession ( Swailes, 2002”
Research Note - The Impact of Community Commitment on Participation in Online Communities (2011, background): “Sometimes termed “calculative” commitment (Swailes 2002), this bond between individual and organization is driven by doubts that an alternate organization could provide the same level of benefits for the same effort invested (Meyer and Allen 1997).”
Organizational commitment—A missing link between leadership behavior and organizational performance? (2008, methodology): “This is especially so when independent performance measures are employed instead of subjective self-rating (Dumdum et al., 2002; Swailes, 2002).”
Happiness at work. (2010, unknown): “Commitment has been conceptualized in a number of ways (Swailes 2002), not all of which are directly relevant to happiness.”
Commitment to change: Profiles of commitment and in‐role performance (2004, background): “The concept of commitment and the assumption that committed employees are beneficial to organisations has a long tradition in the management literature ( Swailes, 2002”
An exploration of factors predicting work alienation of knowledge workers (2010, background): “Subsequent literature, however, has neglected the alienative component – possibly, as discussed by Swailes (2002)”
Relating career stage to attitudes towards HR practices and commitment: Evidence of interaction effects? (2004, background): “Since the 1970s, organizational commitment has emerged as a key concept in the study of work attitudes and behaviour (Swailes, 2002).”
Psychological contract and its motivational and health‐enhancing properties (2010, background): “Furthermore, a number of studies have indicated that affective commitment has a negative effect on employees' intentions to leave, reflecting employees' motivation to stay with the employer (see Swailes, 2002”