A Chronicle of the Concept of Organizational Commitment

Aviad Bar-Haim

Chapter 1 in Organizational Commitment:The Case of Unrewarded Behavior, 2019, pp 1-7 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The use of the term organizational commitment (OC) dates back to the fifties of the 20th century. A basic concern of managers at that time was cooperation (Barnard, 1938) and willingness to stay and contribute (Simon, 1958). Both perceived the relationships between employees and employing organizations as a formal and informal (psychological and social) contract, in which loyalty and commitment are exchanged for material and non-material rewards. This approach to OC was also held by Becker (1960) in his well-known side-bet theory of OC…

Keywords: Organizational Commitment; Work Motivation; Affective Commitment; Normative Commitment; Continuance Commitment; Organizational Behavior; Instrumental Commitment; Calculative Commitment; Side-bets Commitment; Loyalty; Exit; Voice; Compliance-Identification-Internalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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