Date of Award

1993

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Business Administration

Department

Business

First Advisor

Betty LeMasters

Second Advisor

Pat Akers

Third Advisor

Melvin Lewallen

Abstract

Organizational commitment is one of many linkages between employees and employing organizations. It cannot be established as the cause of, or demonstrated to be caused by, other dependent or independent variable constructs, and it cannot be uniformly or conclusively correlated with them, singly or in combination.

Rather, organizational commitment exists in a dynamic and shifting matrix of other employee/organization linkages such as job satisfaction, job performance, work experiences, productivity, etc. The relative strengths, perceived priorities, and consequences of these variables in the matrix are, in turn, functions of the continuously changing characteristics of time, temperament, and talent of both the employees and the organizations.

In a word, organizational commitment is situational. For organizational commitment to also be sustainable, organizational management must identify, accommodate, and utilize the situational realities of the organization and the employees, both individually and in aggregate.

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