...Neil Conway; Michael E. Clinton Purpose We introduce the notion of dilemmatic commitments to psychological contract theory and research – where breach lowers affective commitment while raising continuance commitment – and present its contrasting implications for explaining outcomes. Design...

...Henry C.Y. HO Purpose Organizational justice plays a crucial role in shaping employee work attitudes. This study examines how and when procedural, distributive, interpersonal, and informational justice affects employees’ affective commitment and work engagement. The research is grounded...

... reflexivity significantly contributes to employee innovative behavior. Both affective commitment and normative commitment mediate this relationship. Benevolent leadership not only enhances the relationship between team reflexivity and affective/normative commitment, but also reinforces the linkage of team...

... use of ICTs after hours and fatigue and whether affective commitment exacerbates this mediated relationship. Design/methodology/approach We collected two waves of data from 295 employees in Vietnam, with 51% being female and an average age of 37.81 years old (SD = 7.93). Findings Work-related...

...Ajay K Jain Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of altruistic and egoistic motives with person- and organization-oriented citizenship behaviors as mediated by affective commitment. The author hypothesized that altruistic motives are positively associated...

...Violetta Khoreva Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between leadership development practices and the following employee attitudes: affective commitment, commitment to acceptance of increasing performance demands and commitment to building competencies. Building...

...Long W. Lam; Yan Liu Purpose – Drawing on social identity and self-categorization theories and building on Meyer and Herscovitch's (2001) work on affective commitment, this study aimed to examine the relationship between organizational identification and affective commitment...

...Shahidul Hassan; Rubiná Mahsud; Gary Yukl; Gregory E. Prussia Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how ethical leadership and empowering leadership are related to leader‐member exchange relations (LMX), affective commitment, and leader effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach Data...

...Maria José Chambel; Filipa Castanheira Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of training to explain affective commitment and exhaustion of temporary agency workers (TAW). There is a general assumption that training relates with a social exchange relationship where employees...

...Alexandre J.S. Morin; Christian Vandenberghe; Jean‐Sébastien Boudrias; Isabelle Madore; Julien Morizot; Michel Tremblay Purpose This paper seeks to examine the relationships between affective commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) across four foci: organizations, supervisors...