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Multiple Commitments in the Workplace: An Integrative Approach book cover

1st Edition

Multiple Commitments in the Workplace An Integrative Approach

By Aaron Cohen Copyright 2003
372 Pages
by Psychology Press

372 Pages
by Psychology Press

372 Pages
by Psychology Press
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The growing interest in multiple commitments among researchers and practitioners is evinced by the greater attention in the literature to the broader concept of work commitment. This includes specific objects of commitment, such as organization, work group, occupation, the union, and one's job. In the last several years a sizable body of research has accumulated on the multidimensional approach to... Read more
Contents: E.A. Fleishman, J.N. Cleveland, Series Foreword. Preface. Part I: Introduction. The Importance and Meaning of Multiple Commitments. Part II: Conceptual Considerations in Multiple Commitment Research. Commitment Forms: Description and Characteristics. Commitment Forms: How Distinct Are They? Part III: Theoretical Advancements in Multiple Commitment Research. Typologies of Multiple Commitments. The Interrelationship Among Commitment Forms. Part IV: Trends in Multiple Commitment Research. Commitment Forms and Work Outcomes. Profiles of Commitments. Commitment Forms and Nonwork Domains. Multiple Commitments From a Crosscultural Perspective. Part V: Synthesis and Summary. Where Do We Go From Here? Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Research. Appendix: Commitment Scales.

Biography

Aaron Cohen

"In this book, Cohen provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of the topic of work commitment. The tone of the work is scholarly and research oriented, and the book is likely to be most appealing to researchers in the area of work commitment, and to faculty teaching graduate courses focusing on this rather specialized area..Two noteworthy features are found at the end of the book, specially a comprehensive and rich list of references on work commitment and a helpful appendix that brings together into one convenient location various scales (28 in all) for measuring different forms of work commitment, including organizational commitment, job involvement, work values, career or occupational commitment, work group or team commitment, and union commitment..This appendix by itself may be worth the price of the book for readers who are interested in the topic or work commitment."
—Personnel Psychology

"Doctoral students and faculty looking for the current state of knowledge about commitment will be impressed by the multipage tables within the text that summarize the types of commitment used in various studies of commitment, the methodologies used, and populations, studied..The greatest strength of the book by far, then, is its attention to issues of conceptualization and operationalization. The author provides rigorous definitions of various terms in the commitment literature, he explains the interrelationships among different kinds of commitment, he differentiates commitment from other related constructs in the field (such as job involvement) and he does a scrupulous job of explaining measurement issues and challenges in conducting empirical research."
—Academy of Management Review

"Reading the book has enhanced my appreciation of the potential of multiple commitments approaches as well as the associated difficulties....a thought-provoking book, providing substantial detail that should be of value to scholars planning to explore multiple commitments."
—Administrative Science Quarterly

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