Commitment to organization versus commitment to profession: conflict or compatibility?
There has been an interesting debate in organizational behavior literature on whether conflict or compatibility characterizes the relationship between employees’ commitment to the organization and their commitment to the profession. To address this issue, a survey was conducted on a sample of re...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2002
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2480/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2480/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2480/1/JP21-04.pdf |
| Summary: | There has been an interesting debate in organizational behavior literature
on whether conflict or compatibility characterizes the relationship between
employees’ commitment to the organization and their commitment to the
profession. To address this issue, a survey was conducted on a sample of
research scientists in research institutions in the Klang Valley of Malaysia.
Based on the analysis involving a sample size of 545 research scientists, the
findings confirmed the assumption that there is no conflict between these
concepts. Significant relationship exist between commitment to profession
and the affective, continuance, and normative dimensions of commitment to
the organization (coefficients of 0.43, 0.15, and 0.52 respectively). In other
words, the results suggest that commitment to organization is compatible
with commitment to profession. The outcome of the survey further suggests
the relevance of assessing the relationship in the context of multidimensionality
of, not only organizational commitment, but also of commitment to profession |
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