A Causal Model of Behavioral Commitment: Evidence From a Study of Australian Blue-collar Employees

Journal of Management - Tập 20 Số 1 - Trang 15-41 - 1994
Roderick D. Iverson1,2, Parimal Roy3
1University of Melbourne, Austria
2University of Melbourne
3Monash University Gippsland Campus, Austria

Tóm tắt

This study examines the behavioral commitment ( intent to stay) of a sample of blue-collar employees from a manufacturing firm in Australia. The purpose was to test an integrated causal model of behavioral commitment based on four general classes of variables: structural, pre-entry, environmental, and employee orientations. The LISREL results indicate that variables rank ordered in terms of importance for their total causal effects on the decision process of employees to stay or leave an organization is as follows: job search, job satisfaction, job security, attitudinal commitment, union participation, environmental opportunity, physical conditions, job hazards, met expectations, equity, family responsibility, centraliza tion, supervisory support, and work group cohesion.

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