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What We Know about Organizational Commitment: An Overview of the Literature of the Last Decades

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Organizational Management

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Although Organizational Commitment (OC) is not a new topic in the literature, it was not until 1991 that Meyer and Allen developed both a singular conceptualization about the construct of OC and a scale of measurement. Years later OC has became a very useful topic in business literature because it is directly related to turnover, turnover intention, absenteeism, and even organizational citizenship behavior (Meyer and Herscovitch, 2001). Moreover, OC has come to be regarded as an important variable to facilitate the understanding of an employee’s workplace behavior. Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993) argued that a better understanding of employee relationships with their organizations would improve organizational performance.

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  1. University of Minho, Portugal

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  2. University of Aveiro, Portugal

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Gutiérrez-Broncano, S., Estévez, P.J., Rubio-Andrés, M. (2016). What We Know about Organizational Commitment: An Overview of the Literature of the Last Decades. In: Machado, C., Davim, J.P. (eds) Organizational Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137473080_1

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