Organizational and Client Commitment among Contracted Employees

Autor/inn/en	Coyle-Shapiro, Jacqueline A-M.; Morrow, Paula C.
Titel	Organizational and Client Commitment among Contracted Employees
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 68 (2006) 3, S.416-431 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2005.10.002
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Exchange Theory; Employee Attitudes; Labor Relations; Employees; Organizational Climate; Contracts; Work Ethic; Surveys; Hypothesis Testing; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Theorie des sozialen Wandels; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Arbeitsbeziehung; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Organisationsklima; Vertrag; Arbeitsethos; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Großbritannien
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. (Author).
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