Multiple Commitments in the Workplace: An Integrative Approach

by Cohen,Aaron

• ISBN13: 9780805842340
• ISBN10: 0805842349
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

The growing interest in multiple commitments among researchers and practitioners is evinced by the greater attention in the literature to the broader concept of work commitment. This includes specific objects of commitment, such as organization, work group, occupation, the union, and one's job. In the last several years a sizable body of research has accumulated on the multidimensional approach to commitment. This knowledge needs to be marshaled, its strengths highlighted, and its importance, as well as some of its weaknesses made known, with the aim of guiding future research on commitment based on a multidimensional approach. This book's purpose is to summarize this knowledge, as well as to suggest ideas and directions for future research. Most of the book addresses what seems to be the important aspects of commitment by a multidimensional approach: the differences among these forms, the definition and boundaries of commitment foci as part of a multidimensional approach, their interrelationships, and their effect on outcomes, mainly work outcomes. Two chapters concern aspects rarely examined--the relationship of commitment foci to aspects of nonwork domains and cross-cultural aspects of commitment foci--that should be important topics for future research. Addressing innovative focuses of multiple commitments at work, this book: *suggests a provocative and innovative approach on how to conceptualize and understand multiple commitments in the workplace; *provides a thorough and updated review of the existing research on multiple commitments; *analyzes the relationships among commitment forms and how they might affect behavior at work; and *covers topics rarely covered in multiple commitment research and includes all common scales of commitment forms that can assist researchers and practitioners in measuring commitment forms.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix
Edwin A. Fleishman
Jeanette N. Cleveland
Preface	xi
Part I Introduction
The Importance and Meaning of Multiple Commitments	3	(14)
Part II Conceptual Considerations in Multiple Commitment Research
Commitment Forms: Description and Characteristics	17	(29)
Commitment Forms: How Distinct are They?	46	(35)
Part III Theoretical Advancements in Multiple Commitment Research
Typologies of Multiple Commitments	81	(40)
The Interrelationship Among Commitment Forms	121	(40)
Part IV Trends in Multiple Commitment Research
Commitment Forms and Work Outcomes	161	(29)
Profiles of Commitments	190	(39)
Commitment Forms and Nonwork Domains	229	(27)
Multiple Commitments From a Crosscultural Perspective	256	(35)
Part V Synthesis and Summary
Where do we go From Here? Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Research	291	(10)
Appendix---Commitment Scales	301	(14)
References	315	(24)
Author Index	339	(10)
Subject Index	349