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New development of organizational commitment: A critical review (1960 - 2009)

Zheng WeiBo¹*, Sharan Kaur¹ and Wei Jun²

¹Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, Malaysia.

²Qiqihar Vocational College, Heilongjiang Provence China.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: hitzwb@yahoo.com.cn.

Accepted 12 November, 2009

Abstract

This paper reviews the characteristics of main approaches to Organizational Commitment from the beginning of conception of Commitment in Becker (1960) till today, provides an overview of different eras and domains. Then discuss some new development of Organizational Commitment in commitment tendency or combined influence to organizational outcomes. This paper will argue some of thinking and ideas developed so far do provide the basic building blocks for suggesting a conceptualization that will attempt to clarify and to better represent the concept of organizational commitment. The advantages of suggested theory and its implications for the understanding of organizational commitment and future research on it are discussed.

Key words: Continuous commitment, affective commitment, normative commitment, time-dimension, combined influence.

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