Employee Commitment: A Review of the Background, Determinants and Theoretical Perspectives

Jung-Won Kim and Chris Rowley

Asia Pacific Business Review, 2005, vol. 11, issue 1, 105-124

Abstract: Commitment, and its perceived attendant benefits, is of perennial and topical interest to academics, employees, businesses and policy makers. Also, more recently commitment has become important in many countries, not least in terms of efforts to establish social partnership arrangements with trade unions and their underpinnings. In this paper we review research on employee commitment, in terms of commitment to organizations, trade unions and both, dual commitment. The approaches taken and problems encountered with each are explored. We point out the need for more precise measures, theory and greater care in designing research that examines the relationship between commitment and its predictors. We go on to develop a theoretically underpinned research framework on dual commitment and suggest its possible use in Asian contexts. This will form the context of a later empirical paper.

Date: 2005
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360238052000298407 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:11:y:2005:i:1:p:105-124

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/FAPB20

DOI: 10.1080/1360238052000298407

Access Statistics for this article

Asia Pacific Business Review is currently edited by Professor Chris Rowley and Malcolm Warner

More articles in Asia Pacific Business Review from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().