Campus Units
Management
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
6-2006
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Vocational Behavior
Volume
68
Issue
3
First Page
416
Last Page
431
DOI
10.1016/j.jvb.2005.10.002
Abstract
This study examines affective commitment to employing and client organizations among long-term contracted employees, a new and growing employment classification. Drawing on organizational commitment and social exchange literatures, we propose two categories of antecedents of employee commitment to client organizations. We tested our hypotheses using a survey collected from employees in four UK contracting organizations delivering a service on behalf of a government entity. The results suggest that perceived client organizational support and attractiveness of the client organization relate positively to employees’ affective commitment to the client organization. Furthermore, affective contractor commitment explained unique variation in client affective commitment beyond that accounted for by the client-based predictors, suggesting that employees’ commitment to their own contracting organization is important to explaining employees’ commitment to the client organization. We suggest that a greater reliance on social exchange theory may provide a basis for understanding commitment in its different forms and foci.
Rights
This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Copyright Owner
Elsevier Inc.
Copyright Date
2005
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Coyle-Shapiro, Jacqueline A-M. and Morrow, Paula C., "Organizational and client commitment among contracted employees" (2006). Management Publications. 19.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/management_pubs/19
Included in
Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Human Resources Management Commons
Comments
This article is from Journal of Vocational Behavior 68 (2006): 416–431, doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2005.10.002. Posted with permission.