When normative commitment leads to lower well-being and reduced performance

Autor: Karim Mignonac, Christian Vandenberghe, Caroline Manville
Přispěvatelé: HEC Montréal (HEC Montréal), Centre de Recherche en Management (CRM), Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Toulouse (IAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Human Relations
Human Relations, SAGE Publications, 2015, 68 (5), pp.843-870. ⟨10.1177/0018726714547060⟩
ISSN: 0018-7267
DOI: 10.1177/0018726714547060⟩
Popis: International audience; Normative commitment, or employees’ loyalty to their organization based on a sense of obligation, has received less attention than affective and continuance commitment. Building on recent work suggesting that normative commitment’s meaning is influenced by the within-person context provided by the other components of commitment, we theorized that normative commitment would be experienced as externally driven, hence detrimental to well-being and performance, when few alternatives commitment, a sub-component of continuance commitment, is high. Based on two independent samples (Ns = 366 and 100), Study 1 found normative commitment to be more positively related to emotional exhaustion and psychological distress at high levels of few alternatives commitment. Study 2 (N = 187) found normative commitment to be less positively related to job performance when few alternatives commitment was high. Implications of these findings for our understanding of normative commitment’s workings are highlighted.
Databáze: OpenAIRE