Loyalty: The Forgotten Brick in the Organizational Commitment Construct

Aviad Bar-Haim

Chapter 2 in Organizational Commitment:The Case of Unrewarded Behavior, 2019, pp 9-11 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Loyalty is a concept that has been taken for granted in the discourse of organizational commitment (OC), or even as a synonym. Apparently, the logic is: is it possible to be loyal and not committed? I arrive to this interesting question soon. But before that, let us look in the research database PROQUEST. When searching for titles of scholarly full-text academic studies containing the term Loyalty in their titles, we discover that until June 2016 there were 1,670 items, covering all dimensions of loyalty (interpersonal, political, in marriage, in business and so forth). However, when a search has been narrowed to the title Loyalty And Organizational Commitment, only three (!) articles have been found. In the EBSCO database, with 612 items with the title Loyalty and 213 items with the title Organizational Commitment, this combination has yielded three items as well…

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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