Organizational commitment and its effects on organizational citizenship behavior in a high-unemployment environment

Carlos Devece, Daniel Palacios-Marqués and María Pilar Alguacil

Journal of Business Research, 2016, vol. 69, issue 5, 1857-1861

Abstract: Organizational commitment is an important concept in management and a construct on which extensive research exists. This study considers the relationship of the three dimensions of organizational commitment (affective, normative, and continuance commitment) with employees' organizational citizenship behavior in a high-unemployment environment. By analyzing the effect of high unemployment on the displacement of the self-concept from individual toward relational and collective levels, this work predicts differences in the effect of unemployment on each of the organizational-commitment dimensions. The results show that in a high-unemployment environment the affective and normative dimensions have a similar behavior than in a full employment environment. Nevertheless, the continuance-commitment dimension increases significantly in a high-unemployment context. These results and the importance of the self-concept in organizational commitment can explain some empirical discrepancies in previous research regarding the relationships between organizational-commitment dimensions and their individual effects on employees' behavior.

Keywords: Organizational commitment; High unemployment; Organizational citizenship behavior; Affective commitment; Continuance commitment; Normative commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.069

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