Organizational Commitment: One of Many Commitments or Key Mediating Construct?

Abstract

This study developed and tested two rival views of how organizational commitment can be reconceptualized to accommodate both global organizational commitment and constituency-specific commitments. In the first view, organizational commitment is just one of many independent commitments; in the second, it is a key mediating construct. Results of structural equations modeling used to test the two competing views indicate that the key mediating construct model best represents the relationships between constituency-specific commitments, global organizational commitment, and important organizational outcomes.