A comparison of linear and nonlinear relations between organizational commitment and work outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Luchak, Andrew A.; Gellatly, Ian R.
• 署名单位: University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.3.786
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 786-793
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; linear versus nonlinear relations; turnover; absenteeism; Job performance

摘要

The authors compared linear and nonlinear relations between affective and continuance commitment and 3 commonly studied work outcomes (turnover cognitions, absenteeism, and job performance), observed in 3 separate research settings. Using a linear model, they replicated the common observation in the literature that affective commitment is more strongly related to work outcomes than continuance commitment. Introducing a higher order continuance commitment term into the same equations, however, they found that the linear model seriously understated the magnitude of continuance commitment's effect on all 3 criterion measures. These findings are consistent with recent developments that identify different motivational mindsets associated with affective and continuance commitment (J. P. Meyer, T. E. Becker, & C. Vandenberghe, 2004).